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Lot 55
Sale 5890 - Books and Manuscripts
Jun 25, 2024
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Live / Philadelphia
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Fouque, (Friedrich) de la Motte: Undine
[Rackham, Arthur] Fouque, (Friedrich) de la Motte
Undine
London: William Heinemann/New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909. First and limited edition, #478/1,000 numbered copies signed by Rackham. 4to. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 14 color plates, all mounted and all with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Full crushed green goatskin, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; marbled endpapers; offsetting to some pages and tissue guards opposite heavy brown paper; scattered light foxing; prelims browned. Latimore & Haskell, p. 34; Riall, p. 93