ALICE\'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND/1907/*RARE 1st Edition/*13 ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUS
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ALICE\'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND/1907/*RARE 1st Edition/*13 ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUS:
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND/1907/*RARE 1st Edition/*13 ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUS
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VERY RARE - SCARCE FIRST EDITION - FIRST IMPRESSION
RARE LIMITED EDITION of a CELEBRATED,IMPORTANT & UNCOMMON WORK
RARE FIRST EDITION inORIGINAL PUBLISHER\'S GILT DECORATED GREEN CLOTH BINDING
RARE TRUE FIRST EDITION -13 ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR
ALICE\'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
by
LEWIS CARROLL
Illustrated
by
ARTHUR RACKHAM
With a Poem by Austin Dobson
LONDON, NEW YORK : William Heinemann. Doubleday Page & Co., N. D. c.1907[published date: 1907]. Rare First edition. 4to. 11.75\" x 9.5\" inches (LxB).Pp. ix, (1), 182 pages+ thirteen color plates with tipped-incaptionedtissue guards, & 14 in-text illustrations, some full page, green pictorial endpapers, original publisher\'s green cloth binding with blacklettering and a gilt vignette on the front board.Rare first issue with an ad for Rip Van Winkle at the start [1st published in 1907.]. Printed in England by Ballantyne & Company Ltd., as stated on the last page, boasting in all 13 color plates and 14 in-text black-and-white drawings, handsomely bound in the original publisher\'s decorated binding.Rackham\'s work is often described as a fusion of a northern European \'Nordic\' style strongly influenced by the Japanese woodblock tradition of the early 19th century. Complete as issued. One of Rackham’s scarcer titles. With many of the artist’s bestloved and most easily recognized paintings, masterfully crafted. Arthur Rackham is considered one of the great artists from the Golden Age of illustration. He was in a special league with other hugely talented illustrators such as Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen and W. Heath Robinson. Rackham\'s work continues to inspire and influence legions of artists. His first edition books are extremely collectible. Rackham is most known for his work for children\'s fairy tales. His first edition books are extremely collectible. Arthur Rackham\'s fanciful imagination gave his illustrations instant recognition, and his dedication to illustration kept him in the public eye for thirty years - (Hodnett, 233).
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CONDITION REPORT:A rare book in original publisher\'s green cloth binding, some wear/tear, soiling to covers, spine, ends & corners (See Scans below),pages with sporadic mostly marginal foxing, soiling, the plates are clean & bright(See Scans below), the binding is tight & intact (See Scans below).The cloth is smooth & supple to the touch. (SeeScans below).Note: Title page & 5 other smaller illustrations have been colored by a bright spark (See the last 6 Scans below).Lower end of the front hinge of spine split (See the last Scan below).
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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 theLambeth School of Art. In 1892 he quit his job and started working forThe Westminster Budgetas a reporter and illustrator. His first book illustrations were published in 1893 inTo the Other Sideby Thomas Rhodes, but his first serious commission was in 1894 forThe Dolly Dialogues, the collectedsketchesofAnthony Hope, who later went on to writeThe Prisoner of Zenda. Book illustrating then became Rackham\'s career for the rest of his life. In 1903 he marriedEdyth Starkie, with whom he had one daughter, Barbara, in 1908. Rackham won a gold medal at theMilan International Exhibitionin 1906 and another one at theBarcelona International Expositionin 1912. His works were included in numerous exhibitions, including one at theLouvrein Paris in 1914. Arthur Rackham died 1939 ofcancerin his home inLimpsfield,Surrey.
Notable works- The Zankiwank and the Bletherwitchby Shafto Justin Adair Fitzgerald (40 line, 1896)
- Two Old Ladies, Two Foolish Fairies, and a Tom Catby Maggie Browne (pseud. Margaret Hamer) (4 colour plates, 19 line, 1897)
- Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm(95 line, 1900, reworked edition 40 colour plates, 62 line, 1909)
- Gulliver\'s TravelsbyJonathan Swift(11 line 1900, reworked edition 12 colour plates, 34 line, 1909)
- Rip van WinklebyWashington Irving(51 colour plates, 3 line, 1905)
- Alice\'s Adventures in WonderlandbyLewis Carroll(13 colour plates, 15 line 1907)
- The Ingoldsby Legendsby Thomas Ingoldsby (pseud.Richard Harris Barham) (12 colour, 80 line 1898, reworked edition 23 colour plates, 73 line 1907)
- A Midsummer Night\'s Dreamby William Shakespeare (40 colour plates, 34 line, 1908)
- Tales from ShakespearebyCharlesandMary Lamb(1909)
- UndinebyFriedrich de la Motte Fouqué(15 colour plates, 41 line, 1909)
- The RhinegoldandThe ValkyriebyRichard Wagner(34 colour plates, 8 line, 1910)
- SiegfriedandThe Twilight of the Godsby Richard Wagner (32 colour plates, 8 line, 1911)
- Aesop\'s FablesbyAesop(13 colour plates, 82 line, 1912)
- Peter Pan in Kensington GardensbyJ.M.Barrie(50 colour plates, 3 line, 1906, new edition 50 colour plates, 12 line, 1912)
- Mother Goose(13 colour plates, 78 line 1913)
- A Christmas CarolbyCharles Dickens(12 colour plates, 1915)
- The Allies Fairy Book(12 colour plates, 23 line 1916)
- Little Brother and Little SisterbyThe Brothers Grimm(13 colour plates, 45 line 1917)
- The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round TablebyAlfred W. Pollard(23 colour and monotone plates, 16 line, 1917)
- English Fairy TalesbyFlora Annie Steel(16 colour plates, 43 line, 1918)
- The Springtide of LifebyAlgernon Charles Swinburne(8 colour plates, 1918)
- Some British Ballads(16 colour plates, 23 line, 1918)
- Cinderellaed. Charles S. Evans (1 colour plate, 60 silhouettes, 1919)
- The Sleeping Beautyed. Charles S. Evans (1 colour plate, 65 silhouettes, 1920)
- Irish Fairy TalesbyJames Stephens(16 colour plates, 20 line, 1920)
- ComusbyJohn Milton(22 colour plates, 35 line, 1922)
- A Wonder-Book for Girls and BoysbyNathaniel Hawthorne(16 colour plates, 21 line, 1922)
- The TempestbyWilliam Shakespeare(20 colour plates, 20 line, 1926)
- The Vicar of WakefieldbyOliver Goldsmith(12 colour plates, 23 line, 1929)
- The Compleat AnglerbyIzaak Walton(12 colour plates, 22 line, 1931)
- Fairy TalesbyHans Christian Andersen(12 colour plates, 43 line, 9 silhouettes 1932)
- Tales of Mystery & ImaginationbyEdgar Allan Poe(12 colour plates, 28 line, 1935)
- Peer GyntbyHenrik Ibsen(12 colour plates, 38 line, 1936)
- The Wind in the WillowsbyKenneth Grahame(16 colour plates, posthumously 1940 US, 1950 UK)
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ALICE\'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND/1907/*RARE 1st Edition/*13 ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUS:
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