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Lot 176
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$400 -
600
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$500
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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939), illustrator. -- EVANS, Charles Seddon (1883-1944). The Sleeping Beauty. London and Philadelphia: William Heinemann and J. P. Lippincott Co., 1920.
4to. Color frontispiece and illustrations by Rackham. Contemporary blue morocco gilt, covers with gilt floral motif, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, the rest with floral motif, turn-ins gilt with floral vine motif, all edges gilt, stamp-signed by Bayntun (slight sunning to spine, a few minor scuffs to upper cover).
FIRST EDITION featuring Rackham’s celebrated silhouette illustrations.