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Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - A beautiful printing, in very good condition Numbered #261/625 copies of the Edition de Luxe. 4to. Publisher's deluxe quarter vellum over Japanese vellum-covered boards, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Minimal wear to boards, with light bumping to corners and spine. Signed by Rackham. HC Drayton Bookplate, this is a fine Ex Libris book plate illustration by British artist Stanley Anderson. This engraving of fishing equipment, pencil signed by Anderson and with a stag circular blindstamp in the lower right corner of the border. The image measures 4 1/4X3 1/4 inches (fetches £375 on it's own). Alfred Charles Stanley Anderson CBE RA (11 May 1884 ? 4 March 1966) was a British engraver, etcher and watercolour painter. Anderson was principally known for the series of highly detailed engravings of traditional British crafts that he completed over a twenty-year period beginning in 1933. Please see photos as part of condition report 1920 1st Edition (Thus) , With Provenance THE SLEEPING BEAUTY By C.S. Evans Former chairman and managing director of publisher William Heinemann Limited (1883-1944) Illustrated By: Arthur Rackham Arthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 ? 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. He is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator. Rackham's 51 colour pieces for the early American tale Rip Van Winkle became a turning point in the production of books since ? through colour-separated printing ? it featured the accurate reproduction of colour artwork. His best-known works also include the illustrations for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Format: Hardcover, quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305),Pages Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: William Heinemann & J.B. Lippincott Co, London Synopsis: The earliest known version of The Sleeping Beauty is found in the narrative Perceforest, composed between 1330 and 1344. The tale was first published in 1634 by Giambattista Basile in his collection of tales titled The Pentamerone. Basile's version was later adapted and published by Charles Perrault in his Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé in 1697. Perrault (1628 1703) was among the first writers to bring magical children s stories into the literary mainstream, proving to his original seventeenth century readers that such works were important and enjoyable, as well as thought-provoking. The version that was later collected and printed in 1812 by the Brothers Grimm was an orally transmitted version of the literary tale published by Perrault. In 1919, C.S. Evans adapted and expanded the beloved and cherished stories of Cinderella and then The Sleeping Beauty in order to give his brilliant illustrator, Arthur Rackham, maximum opportunity to exercise his gifts. The product of their collaboration are two of the most wonderful editions produced of these, or any other, fairy tales. In these 1919 and 1920 printings, Rackham mastered his black and white silhouette style. "Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty differed from Rackham s preceding books in relying almost wholly on silhouette for their effect. It is immediately clear from the collection of images that Rackham is a master of the medium, being able to evoke character and humor by profile and gesture alone and allowing the two-dimensional effect of his pen work to lead the reader through the book and keep the story going." (James Hamilton. Arthur Rackham: A Biography, p. 188) Thoroughly illustrated with numerous illustrations and in-text silhouettes, this book is a testament to Rackham s illustrating prowess. Rackham s fanciful imagination gave his illustration.
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