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Lot 86
Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023
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Live / Philadelphia
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Mother Goose The Old Nursery Rhymes
London: William Heinemann, (1913). First and limited edition, #948/1,100 numbered copies, signed by Rackham (from a total edition of 1,130). 4to. (xii), (160) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 12 color plates, all mounted and all with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations, with some offsetting to close pages. Publisher's white cloth, decorated in gilt, spine darkened, boards a little soiled; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, some pages unopened; prelims foxed. Latimore & Haskell, p. 40; Riall, p. 115
Laid in is a notice for an exhibition of Rackham’s original Mother Goose watercolors on show at The Leicester Galleries in London, October 11 to November 15, 1913.