Arthur Rackham

Rackham, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures. With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London, William Heinemann, 1913.
Includes the following set of 44 illustrations: I. "Of the Little People": The Magic Cup / Elves / Seekers for Treasure / Goblin Thieves / By the Way / The Little People's Market / Wee Folk / Malice / The Man who was Terrified by Goblins / II: "Classic": Danae / The Dragon of the Hesperides / Dryad / III. "Some Fairy Tales" - Jack the Giant Killer / Jack and the Bean Stalk / Puss in Boots / Adrift / The Frog prince / Santa Claus / IV. "Some Children": Marjorie and Margaret / The Little Piper / On the Beach / The Broad Walk, Kensington Gardens / V. "Grotesque & Fantastic": The Green Dragon / Once upon a Time / The Sea Serpent / The Wizard / The Haunted Wood / Elfin Revellers / Hi ! You up There / The Gossips / Jack Frost / Mother Goose / The Wind and the Waves / Fog / Shades of Evening / The Leviathan / VI. "Various": Cupid's Allex / A Court in the Alhambra / Bastinado / The Fairy Wife / The Signal / Butterflies / Hauling Timber / The Regent's Canal // Arthur Rackham (19 September 1867 - 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. Rackham was born in London as one of 12 children. At the age of 18, he worked as a clerk at the Westminster Fire Office and began studying part-time at the Lambeth School of Art. In 1892 he left his job and started working for The Westminster Budget as a reporter and illustrator. His first book illustrations were published in 1893 in To the Other Side by Thomas Rhodes, but his first serious commission was in 1894 for The Dolly Dialogues, the collected sketches of Anthony Hope, who later went on to write The Prisoner of Zenda. Book illustrating then became Rackham's career for the rest of his life. In 1903 he married Edyth Starkie, with whom he had one daughter, Barbara, in 1908. Rackham won a gold medal at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906 and another one at the Barcelona International Exposition in 1912. His works were included in numerous exhibitions, including one at the Louvre in Paris in 1914. Arthur Rackham died in 1939 of cancer in his home in Limpsfield, Surrey. Rackham invented his own unique technique which resembled photographic reproduction; he would first sketch an outline of his drawing, then lightly block in shapes and details. Afterwards he would add lines in pen and India ink, removing the pencil traces after it had dried. With colour pictures, he would then apply multiple washes of colour until transparent tints were created. He would also go on to expand the use of silhouette cuts in illustration work. Typically, Rackham contributed both colour and monotone illustrations towards the works incorporating his images - and in the case of Hawthorne's Wonder Book, he also provided a number of part-coloured block images similar in style to Meiji era Japanese woodblocks. (Wikipedia)

Large-Octavo. 43 pages plus 44 full-page-plates with titled tissue-guards. Original, illustrated cloth. Gilt lettering on spine and frontcover. Binding in overall excellent condition with only minor signs of wear and some minor staining. Few minor traces of foxing only. All tipped-in illustrations in place and in excellent condition including the titled tissue-guards.

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[Rackham, Arthur] Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. From the Little White Bird by J.M.Barrie. A New Edition. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. First Edition of Arthur Rackham's enlarged edition. Incomparison to the first edition from 1906, this edition has one more colour plate and seven (7) black-and-white illustrations. London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1912].
Arthur Rackham (19 September 1867 - 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. Rackham was born in London as one of 12 children. At the age of 18, he worked as a clerk at the Westminster Fire Office and began studying part-time at the Lambeth School of Art. In 1892 he left his job and started working for The Westminster Budget as a reporter and illustrator. His first book illustrations were published in 1893 in To the Other Side by Thomas Rhodes, but his first serious commission was in 1894 for The Dolly Dialogues, the collected sketches of Anthony Hope, who later went on to write The Prisoner of Zenda. Book illustrating then became Rackham's career for the rest of his life. In 1903 he married Edyth Starkie, with whom he had one daughter, Barbara, in 1908. Rackham won a gold medal at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906 and another one at the Barcelona International Exposition in 1912. His works were included in numerous exhibitions, including one at the Louvre in Paris in 1914. Arthur Rackham died in 1939 of cancer in his home in Limpsfield, Surrey. Rackham invented his own unique technique which resembled photographic reproduction; he would first sketch an outline of his drawing, then lightly block in shapes and details. Afterwards he would add lines in pen and India ink, removing the pencil traces after it had dried. With colour pictures, he would then apply multiple washes of colour until transparent tints were created. He would also go on to expand the use of silhouette cuts in illustration work. Typically, Rackham contributed both colour and monotone illustrations towards the works incorporating his images - and in the case of Hawthorne's Wonder Book, he also provided a number of part-coloured block images similar in style to Meiji era Japanese woodblocks. (Wikipedia)

4°. 125, (2) text-pages plus 50 tipped-in colour-plates with original tissue-guards. Original, illustrated green cloth. Gilt lettering and illustration on spine and frontcover. Binding in unusually excellent condition with some stronger traces of foxing to the spine. All tipped-in illustrations in place and in stunning condition, including the tissue-guards. The illustrated frontcover of the original dustjacket has been attached tro the front free endpaper.

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[Rackham, Arthur] Grimm, Brothers (Jakob and Wilhelm). Grimm's Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London, William Heinemann, [ca. 1925].
Arthur Rackham (19 September 1867 - 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. Rackham was born in London as one of 12 children. At the age of 18, he worked as a clerk at the Westminster Fire Office and began studying part-time at the Lambeth School of Art. In 1892 he left his job and started working for The Westminster Budget as a reporter and illustrator. His first book illustrations were published in 1893 in To the Other Side by Thomas Rhodes, but his first serious commission was in 1894 for The Dolly Dialogues, the collected sketches of Anthony Hope, who later went on to write The Prisoner of Zenda. Book illustrating then became Rackham's career for the rest of his life. In 1903 he married Edyth Starkie, with whom he had one daughter, Barbara, in 1908. Rackham won a gold medal at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906 and another one at the Barcelona International Exposition in 1912. His works were included in numerous exhibitions, including one at the Louvre in Paris in 1914. Arthur Rackham died in 1939 of cancer in his home in Limpsfield, Surrey. Rackham invented his own unique technique which resembled photographic reproduction; he would first sketch an outline of his drawing, then lightly block in shapes and details. Afterwards he would add lines in pen and India ink, removing the pencil traces after it had dried. With colour pictures, he would then apply multiple washes of colour until transparent tints were created. He would also go on to expand the use of silhouette cuts in illustration work. Typically, Rackham contributed both colour and monotone illustrations towards the works incorporating his images - and in the case of Hawthorne's Wonder Book, he also provided a number of part-coloured block images similar in style to Meiji era Japanese woodblocks. (Wikipedia)

Large Octavo. XV, 325 (1) pages. Including 40 full page colour-illustrations with titled tissue-guards. In addition you find several black-and-white illustrations throughout the text. Original, illustrated red cloth. Gilt lettering on spine and frontcover. Binding in overall good to very good condition with some stronger signs of wear. Spine slightly faded. Some traces of foxing. All illustrations in place and in excellent condition including the titled tissue-guards. Extremely Rare Arthur Rackham book that is usually in bits and pieces.

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[Rackham, Arthur] Motte Fouque, (Friedrich) de la. Undine. Adapted from the German by W.L. Courtney and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London, William Heinemann, 1909.
Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque in which Undine, a water spirit, marries a knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages. During the nineteenth century the book was very popular and was, according to The Times in 1843, "a book which, of all others, if you ask for it at a foreign library, you are sure to find engaged". The story, which has resemblances to The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, is descended from Melusine, the French folk-tale of a water-sprite who marries a knight on condition that he shall never see her on Saturdays, when she resumes her mermaid shape. It was also inspired by a text of Paracelsus. An unabridged English edition of the story published in 1909 was illustrated by Arthur Rackham. George Macdonald thought Undine "the most beautiful" of all fairy stories, and the references to it in such works as Charlotte Yonge's The Daisy Chain and Louisa Alcott's Little Women show that it was one of the best loved of all books for many 19th-century children. All these stories grow, possibly, out of older mythologies about seal women common in world mythology from early times; Celtic stories about selkies and the Kalevala's fish-woman tale are of this genre. The first adaptation of Undine was E.T.A. Hoffmann's opera in 1814. It was a collaboration between E.T.A. Hoffman, who composed the score, and Friedrich de la Motte Fouque who adapted his own work into a libretto. The opera proved highly successful, and Carl Maria von Weber admired it in his review as the kind of composition which the German desires: 'an art work complete in itself, in which partial contributions of the related and collaborating arts blend together, disappear, and, in disappearing, somehow form a new world'. In the 1830s, the novella was translated into Russian dactylic hexameter verse by the Romantic poet Vasily Zhukovsky. This verse translation became a classic in its own right and later provided the basis for the libretto to Tchaikovsky's operatic adaptation. The novella has since inspired numerous similar adaptions in various genres and traditions. (Wikipedia) Arthur Rackham (19 September 1867 - 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. Rackham was born in London as one of 12 children. At the age of 18, he worked as a clerk at the Westminster Fire Office and began studying part-time at the Lambeth School of Art. In 1892 he left his job and started working for The Westminster Budget as a reporter and illustrator. His first book illustrations were published in 1893 in To the Other Side by Thomas Rhodes, but his first serious commission was in 1894 for The Dolly Dialogues, the collected sketches of Anthony Hope, who later went on to write The Prisoner of Zenda. Book illustrating then became Rackham's career for the rest of his life. In 1903 he married Edyth Starkie, with whom he had one daughter, Barbara, in 1908. Rackham won a gold medal at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906 and another one at the Barcelona International Exposition in 1912. His works were included in numerous exhibitions, including one at the Louvre in Paris in 1914. Arthur Rackham died in 1939 of cancer in his home in Limpsfield, Surrey. Rackham invented his own unique technique which resembled photographic reproduction; he would first sketch an outline of his drawing, then lightly block in shapes and details. Afterwards he would add lines in pen and India ink, removing the pencil traces after it had dried. With colour pictures, he would then apply multiple washes of colour until transparent tints were created. He would also go on to expand the use of silhouette cuts in illustration work. Typically, Rackham contributed both colour and monotone illustrations towards the works incorporating his images - and in the case of Hawthorne's Wonder Book, he also provided a number of part-coloured block images similar in style to Meiji era Japanese woodblocks. (Wikipedia)

Large Octavo. VIII, 136 pages with 15 tipped-in colour-illustrations and titled tissue-guards. Includes also 30 charming black-and-white illustrations. Original, illustrated cloth. Gilt lettering on spine and frontcover. Beautilful gilt illustration of Undine on the frontcover. Binding in overall excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Name on endpaper. Few minor traces of foxing only. All tipped-in illustrations in place and in excellent condition including the titled tissue-guards. With the original, pictorial endpapers.

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