FIRST EDITION THE TEMPEST ARTHUR RACKHAM HARDCOVER w/DUSTJACKET TIPPED IN ILLS

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FIRST EDITION THE TEMPEST ARTHUR RACKHAM HARDCOVER w/DUSTJACKET TIPPED IN ILLS:
$850.00

Up For Sale Today is

THE TEMPEST

Arthur Rackham

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DJ in VG shape with light shelf-wear present to the DJ. Bound in black cloth. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge stained yellow. Previous owner\'s name present to the FFEP with notes regarding the number of plates present as well. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present.

FROM WIKIPEDIA:

Arthur Rackham (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator.

Rackham was born in London as one of 12 children. In 1884, at the age of 17, he was sent on an ocean voyage to Australia to improve his fragile health, accompanied by two Aunts. 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.]

Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the \'Golden Age\' of British book illustration which encompassed the years from 1900 until the start of the First World War. During that period, there was a strong market for high quality illustrated books that typically were given as Christmas gifts. Many of Rackham\'s books were produced in a de luxe limited edition, often vellum bound and sometimes signed, as well as a larger, less ornately bound quarto \'trade\' edition. This was often followed by a more modestly presented octavo edition in subsequent years for particularly popular books. The onset of the war in 1914 curtailed the market for such quality books, and the public\'s taste for fantasy and fairies also declined in the 1920s.

Arthur Rackham\'s works have become very popular since his death, both in North America and Britain. His images have been widely used by the greeting card industry and many of his books are still in print or have been recently available in both paperback and hardback editions. His original drawings and paintings are keenly sought at the major international art sale houses.

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 translucent tints were created. He would also go on to expand the use of silhouette cuts in illustration work, particularly in the period after the First World War, as exemplified by his Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.

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.

Rackham\'s work is often described as a fusion of a northern European \'Nordic\' style strongly influenced by the Japanese woodblock tradition of the 19th century.

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