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[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Steel, Flora Annie (editor)
English Fairy Tales
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1918. First and limited deluxe edition, #193/500 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. 4to. ix, (i), 341 pp. Illustrated with mounted color frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, 15 mounted color plates, each with captioned tissue guards, and numerous black and white in-text illustrations, by Rackham. Original deluxe full vellum, stamped in gilt, scattered soiling to boards and spine; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; pictorial endpapers; minor foxing to endpapers. Riall p. 132; Latimore & Haskell p. 48
Sold for $945
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1918. First and limited deluxe edition, #193/500 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. 4to. ix, (i), 341 pp. Illustrated with mounted color frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, 15 mounted color plates, each with captioned tissue guards, and numerous black and white in-text illustrations, by Rackham. Original deluxe full vellum, stamped in gilt, scattered soiling to boards and spine; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; pictorial endpapers; minor foxing to endpapers. Riall p. 132; Latimore & Haskell p. 48
