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Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
by Rackham, Arthur (Foreword)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Rapid River, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1913. Bound in polished calfskin Zaehnsdorf with Moroccan back labels with gilded letters, gilded vignette on the front leaf, gilded covers and inner teeth, marbled attachments, all edges gilded Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 13 full-page colour plates with inscribed fabric protectors and numerous illustrations in the text. Original linen and picture endsheets bound at the back In good condition First edition of Arthur Rackham's illustrated rendition of the classic nursery rhyme collection. Octavo, bound in full polished calf Zaehnsdorf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt vignette to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 13 full-page color plates with captioned tissue guards and numerous in-text illustrations. Original cloth and pictorial endpapers bound in at rear. In very good condition. "So far as titles go (but not so far as artwork goes) we move into a different key with Mother Goose, a book constructed in 1913 from a series of plates and line drawings which had appeared and would reappear in St Nicholas between 1912 and 1914. The poems were chosen by Rackham, presumably in terms of the themes and subjects he wished to illustrate: this would account for the consistently good quality of the many plates and of the numerous line drawings." (Gettings 131). Insured post.. First Edition. Full-Leather. Good. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
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- Bookseller
- BiblioStax
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022166
- Title
- Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
- Author
- Rackham, Arthur (Foreword)
- Illustrator
- Rackham, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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