Rackham Arthur Illustrator Ibsen Henrik (9 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Undated Lippincott in orange cloth in very lightly shelf worn price intact jacket. No marks. 12 tissue guarded Rackham color plates.B27 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

FIRST EDITION Small 4to. brown hardback, gilt. Illustrated endpapers. 256pp. text plus 12 full-page colour plates (1 plate bound-in upside down) by Rackham with captioned tissue guards. There are also a few b/w vignettes within the text. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Slight rubbing to spine edges, top and base. Overall a VERY GOOD COPY. (Shelf 3/4) PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK (1.1 kg+) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

1st edition pictorial boards Nice copy large octavo 256pp., col. frontis., col. pls., text illusts., 12 fine colour plates plus many black and white illustrations in the text by Arthur Rackham. All plates are excellent, all retaining their captioned tissue-guards. Brown boards with gilt decoration to upper board & spine. Decorated end papers. Nice owner's bookplate on verso of front paste-down & small neat ownership inscription on prelim. dated 1936 o/w a nice bright, tight, square copy of the first edition. PHOTO available.

[Illustrated Drama] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[2] 256 [2]. With 12 colour illustrations by Rackham, including a frontispiece, and occasional in-text vignettes. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge brown, with illustrated endpapers. Two blue ink ownerships to first blank. Gently toned throughout, with a light tobacco scent, otherwise internally clean. Moderate general wear and toning to cloth. Very good.

Limited edition, #237 of 460 hand-numbered copies, signed by Rackham, in publisher's full vellum with gilt title and spine. Illustrated with mounted color frontispiece, 12 mounted color plates by Rackham with lettered tissue guards. 4to. [iv], 5-256pp., [1]. Latimore & Haskell, pg. 74. Very good in publisher's gilt-stamped vellum, usual minimal natural discoloration, top edges gilt, contents quite clean, with good matching original slipcase, age-toned, short splits, rubbing to edges.

270 x 200 mm. (10 3/4 x 8"). 255, [3] pp. Publisher's stiff vellum, upper cover with gilt lettering and illustrations, smooth spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, about two-thirds UNOPENED. With 12 COLOR PLATES (including frontispiece) BY ARTHUR RACKHAM, all protected by tissue guards with descriptive letterpress. A Large Paper Copy. Front pastedown with bookplate of Mariquita Brey. Latimore and Haskell, p. 74 âAn outstanding copy. Little changed from the day it left the printer, this is a copy in virtually mint condition of the limited edition of Rackham's "Peer Gynt," written by Henrik Ibsen in 1867. Rackham's accomplished full-page color illustrations here are the confident work of a mature artist approaching his 70th year. The charming village scenes and cozy cabin interiors contrast sharply with the menace of the wintry woods and the kingdom of the trolls. The translator here, R. Farquharson Sharp (1864-1945), says that his translation is an improvement over former ones because he has refused the temptation of retaining the rhymed verse of the original. He has instead chosen unrhymed verse in Ibsen's original meter in an attempt to capture the original, literal meaning. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) studied art at Lambeth School, where the work of his fellow student Charles Ricketts influenced his development. Houfe tells us that soon after Rackham joined the staff of "The Westminster Budget" in 1892, he "established himself as one of the foremost Edwardian illustrators and was triumphant in the early 1900s when color printing first enabled him to use subtle tints and muted tones to represent age and timelessness." Copies of signed Rackham books are plentiful, but are seldom encountered in the kind of remarkable condition seen here. No. 178 OF 460 SIGNED COPIES of the First Rackham Edition, 450 of which were for sale.

Condition: Near Fine. Deluxe Edition. Number 38 of 460 copies signed and numbered by Rackham on the limitation page. A near fine copy with all 12 color plates. Bound in vellum with gilt pictorial stamping and title and illustrative endpapers. Top of text block gilt, all other edges uncut. Tag for Henry Sotheran Ltd on first flyleaf. Some superficial discoloration to vellum and expected minor wear to edges, lacking original slip case, interior bright and clean. Although inspired by the folk legend and by Peter Christen Asbjornsen's fairy tales, the playwright Henrik Ibsen believed some of the story to be based on true events. He also based some of the characters on his own family members, including his parents, thus imbuing them with a sense of an authenticity. Ibsen, who was interested in promoting Norwegian culture, first wrote Peer Gynt in verse while traveling in Italy. Although he did not originally intend it to be a theatrical production, it has gone on to be an essential part of his oeuvre (Encyclopedia). First published in 1867, this deluxe edition of Ibsen's five-act play is a perfect merging of Rackham?s illustrate style with Ibsen?s folk-adventure narrative. "In the troll scenes, or in Peer's moorland encounter with the threadballs, Rackhamerie abounds." (Gettings). Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children?s books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic?from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Rial 192. Near Fine.

Condition: Fine. First thus. Edition deluxe, number 286 of 460 copies signed by the artist. A Fine copy. Quarto. Twelve color plates with captioned tissue guards and numerous black and white text drawings as head and tailpieces, and devices. Publisher's vellum boards gilt lettered and ornamented, with gilt vignette. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed, partially uncut. Housed in the original publishers cardboard slipcase with matching limitation number. Although inspired by the folk legend and by Peter Christen Asbjornsen's fairy tales, the playwright Henrik Ibsen believed some of the story to be based on true events. He also based some of the characters on his own family members, including his parents, thus imbuing them with a sense of authenticity. Ibsen, who was interested in promoting Norwegian culture, first wrote Peer Gynt in verse while traveling in Italy. Although he did not originally intend it to be a theatrical production, it has gone on to be an essential part of his oeuvre (Encyclopedia). First published in 1867, this deluxe edition of Ibsen's five-act play is a perfect merging of Rackham?s illustration style with Ibsen?s folk-adventure narrative. "In the troll scenes, or in Peer's moorland encounter with the threadballs, Rackhamerie abounds." (Gettings). Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children?s books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic?from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Gettings, p. 181. Hudson, p. 182. Riall, p. 192. Fine.

260 x 197 mm. (10 1/4 x 7 3/4"). 255, [3] pp. Original publisher's linen boards, original pictorial dust jacket. With 12 COLOR PLATES (including frontispiece) BY ARTHUR RACKHAM, all protected by tissue guards with descriptive letterpress. Latimore & Haskell, p. 74. âDust jacket with tiny chip out of bottom edge of back panel and two very minor closed tears at bottom of front panel, a little chafing at folds, but still A VERY FINE COPY IN A FINE JACKET. This is an especially well-preserved copy of the first British trade edition (appearing the same year as a British limited edition and an American trade edition) of Rackham's "Peer Gynt," written by Ibsen in 1867. The translator here, R. Farquharson Sharp (1864-1945), says that his translation is an improvement over former ones because he has refused the temptation of retaining the rhymed verse of the original. He has instead chosen unrhymed verse in Ibsen's original meter in an attempt to capture the original, literal meaning. Rackham's accomplished full-page color illustrations here are the confident work of a mature artist approaching his 70th year. First (British) Printing of this Edition.