springtide life poems childhood preface von rackham arthur swinburne algernon charles (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardback, 4to. 10 x 7.5 inches. Original dark green gilt cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper. (DW some small tears and creases to edges, chips to corners. Some handling marks. In protective sleeve.) Corners slightly bumped on boards. Some fading to lettering on spine. Some bubbling to cloth on rear. Some foxing to endpapers, no penned inscriptions. Vertical folds/creases to frontis tissue guard. Plates all clean and bright, all guarded. Some minor light foxing spots to pages. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 133pp. Illustrated with 8 full-page colour plates and many smaller B&W illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Endpapers with a garland design printed in green.

Signed limited edition, number 521 of 765 copies signed by the artist. This edition includes an additional colour plate that is not present in the trade edition. It depicts Swinburne as Pan addressing a group of children beneath a typically Rackhamesque tree. A contemporary review in The Bookman states, "Arthur Rackham has caught the very spirit and changing moods of the poems very happily in his delicately finished series of colour pictures, and his many little sketches of children, scattered through its pages as head- and tail-pieces, add much to the charm of one of the most beautiful gift-books." Latimore & Haskell pp. 48-49; Riall, p. 133. The Bookman, December 1918. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 8 colour plates tipped-in on thick brown paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Original vellum-backed cream-coloured boards, spine and front cover lettered and illustrated in gilt, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt. Lower corners bumped, light consistent soiling to binding, browning to free endpapers: a very good copy.

First Rackham edition, signed limited issue, number 631 of 765 copies signed by the artist. A contemporary review described the edition as "one of his best. [Rackham's] delicate and romantic fancy is in sensitive harmony with Swinburne's poems and his pictures show that he understands no less than did the poet" (The Publisher's Weekly, vol. 94, 1918, p. 19). Riall, p. 133. Quarto (305 x 235 mm). With 9 tipped-in colour plates, including frontispiece, tissue guards captioned in green, and black and white illustrations to the text, all by Rackham, title page printed in black and green. Late 20th-century green crushed morocco, raised bands, red morocco spine label, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in four compartments in gilt, floral border to covers in gilt, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, marbled endpapers. A very good copy, attractively bound, pale damp stains to fore and inner margins of a few pages, text unaffected, contents otherwise clean.