Signed Limited Edition, Beautifully Bound by Bayntun Riviere
Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures. With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
London: William Heinemann, 1913.
illustrator]. QUILLER-COUCH, Sir Arthur, [contributor]. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures. With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: William Heinemann, 1913.
Full Description:
RACKHAM, Arthur, [illustrator]. QUILLER-COUCH, Sir Arthur, [contributor]. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures. With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: William Heinemann, 1913.
Limited edition of 1,030 numbered copies signed by Rackham of which 1000, numbered 1-1000, are for sale in Great Britain, Ireland and Colonies, and thirty copies, numbered 1001-1030, are for presentation, this is number 23. Quarto (11 x 8 3/4 inches; 277 x 224 mm). 43 pp. Forty-four color plates (including frontispiece) mounted on brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards.
Bound by Bayntun (Rivière) (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) in blue crushed levant morocco. Covers gilt, double fillet border and gilt corner devices. Spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Board edges and dentelles decoratively tooled in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some mild foxing to tissue guards. Spine slightly sunned. Still a fine copy.
Latimore and Haskell, pp. 41-42. Riall, p. 118.
HBS 69651.
$1,100.
Price: $1,100.00
Item #69651