THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS/1907/RARE 1st/1 of 500 COPIES/36 ARTHUR RACKHAM COLOR PLTS

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VERY RARE - SCARCE FIRST EDITION - FIRST ISSUE
RARE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of a CELEBRATED WORK
FINE ORIGINAL FULL FINE GILT VELLUM BINDING
36 ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR
#446 of 500 numbered copies signed by the artist. THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS
or
MIRTH & MARVELS
by
THOMAS INGOLDSBY
Illustrated
by
ARTHUR RACKHAM

LONDON: J. M. Dent, 1907 [published date: 1907]. Rare First Signed Limited edition. 4to. 12\" x 9\" inches (LxB). Rare First edition, with illustrations not found in the much smaller first trade edition of 1898. Pp. xix, [1, blank], 549, [1] pages.Complete with Twenty-four full color tipped-in plates with captioned tissue guards, twelve full-page tinted plates, unmounted. Sixty-six black and white drawings as called for, all by Arthur Rackham, top edges gilt others uncut, fine original publisher\'s full vellum binding with gilt lettering and a bright gilt vignette on the front board.One of only 500 numbered copies signed by the artist. This being number 446. Rare first issue. Printed in England by Ballantyne & Company Ltd., as stated on the last page. First deluxe limited edition, one of only 500 copies signed by Rackham, boasting in all 24 color plates mounted on green art paper, with captioned tissue guards. Head- tailpiece drawings, handsomely bound in fine gilt decorated vellum. A rare copy of one of the more obscure Rackham titles, in a beautiful binding.Latimore and Haskell, pp. 30-31. Riall, p. 83.A classic work, complete as issued. There are numerous close-up pictures of the contents given below; please click on them for a detailed description (See Scans below). Please take some time to view the 50+ pictures in detail, in order to gain a full idea of the contents and condition.

A Prefatory Note dtd. 1907 by the Illustrator ARTHUR RACKHAM at the start States:
\"In 1898 Messrs. Dent and Co., first published \'The Ingoldsby Legends,\' with about one hundred illustrations of mine. This book has met with a very satisfactory reception, but the publisher\'s have felt with me that, with the addition of new drawings, a careful overhauling would make it worthy of publication in a more important form, in which greater prominence could be given to the illustrations by better and larger reproductions, including a greater number of illustrations in colour. \"To this end the following has been done: \"The frontispiece and the colored illustration facing page 508 have been specially drawn, and all the other illustrations in colour have been worked on to a considerable extent, and specially coloured for this edition. A few illustrations in the earlier edition have been omitted and in their place have been added those facing page 254 and on pages vi, 25, 37, 316, 320, and 333.\"Many of the pen drawings have been reconsidered and worked on again - those which have been worked on to any great extent being now signed with both dates, 1898 and 1907. Of the rest, reproductions on a larger scale have been made in all but a few cases, and the text has been revised and entirely reset for this edition\'. It has been the desire of the Publisher to present an \"Edition Definitive Deluxe.\" .....it has been reset in fine type, while Mr. ARTHUR RACKHAM has entered heartily into the wild humor & fantasy of this classic. ..........The Color Printing has been done by Ballantyne Press of London.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: 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 the Lambeth School of Art. In 1892 he quit 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 collectedsketches 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 marriedEdyth Starkie, with whom he had one daughter, Barbara, in 1908. Rackham won a gold medal at theMilan International Exhibition in 1906 and another one at theBarcelona International Exposition in 1912. His works were included in numerous exhibitions, including one at theLouvre in Paris in 1914. Arthur Rackham died 1939 ofcancer in his home 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 color pictures, he would then apply multiple washes of color until transparent tints were created. He would also go on to expand the use of silhouette cuts in illustration work.

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CONDITION REPORT: A rare book in a fine original contemporary full fine vellum binding, with latersilk ties (See Scans below), some wear/tear, soiling to covers, spine, ends & corners (See Scans below), the pages with some age toning, marginal soiling; all the plates are fine - clean & bright (See Scans below), the binding is tight & intact (See Scans below). The vellum is smooth & supple to the touch (See Scans below). Note: Rare signed limited edition (See Scans below). Note: Both covers with an orange color discoloration. the back cover with additionalstain, no seepage to back pastedown(See the last 3 Scans below). A scarce title (See Scans below). See, click & enlarge the 100+ pictures below to get a better idea of condition etc.There are many close-up pictures for your kind perusal. Please click on any of the 50+ images above & below in the listing for enlarged close-up pictures of details, virtues & flaws (See Scans below).

Notable works

The Zankiwank and the Bletherwitch by Shafto Justin Adair Fitzgerald (40 line, 1896)
Two Old Ladies, Two Foolish Fairies, and a Tom Cat by 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 Travels by Jonathan Swift (11 line 1900, reworked edition 12 colour plates, 34 line, 1909)
Rip van Winkle by Washington Irving (51 colour plates, 3 line, 1905)
Alice\'s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (13 colour plates, 15 line 1907)
The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby (pseud. Richard Harris Barham) (12 colour, 80 line 1898, reworked edition 23 colour plates, 73 line 1907)
A Midsummer Night\'s Dream by William Shakespeare (40 colour plates, 34 line, 1908)
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb (1909)
Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (15 colour plates, 41 line, 1909)
The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie by Richard Wagner(34 colour plates, 8 line, 1910)
Siegfried and The Twilight of the Gods by Richard Wagner (32 colour plates, 8 line, 1911)
Aesop\'s Fables by Aesop (13 colour plates, 82 line, 1912)
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.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 Carol by Charles Dickens (12 colour plates, 1915)
The Allies Fairy Book (12 colour plates, 23 line 1916)
Little Brother and Little Sister by The Brothers Grimm (13 colour plates, 45 line 1917)
The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Alfred W. Pollard (23 colour and monotone plates, 16 line, 1917)
English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel (16 colour plates, 43 line, 1918)
The Springtide of Life by Algernon Charles Swinburne (8 colour plates, 1918)
Some British Ballads (16 colour plates, 23 line, 1918)
Cinderella ed. Charles S. Evans (1 colour plate, 60 silhouettes, 1919)
The Sleeping Beauty ed. Charles S. Evans (1 colour plate, 65 silhouettes, 1920)
Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens (16 colour plates, 20 line, 1920)
Comus by John Milton (22 colour plates, 35 line, 1922)
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne (16 colour plates, 21 line, 1922)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (20 colour plates, 20 line, 1926)
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (12 colour plates, 23 line, 1929)
The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton (12 colour plates, 22 line, 1931)
Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (12 colour plates, 43 line, 9 silhouettes 1932)
Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe (12 colour plates, 28 line, 1935)
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (12 colour plates, 38 line, 1936)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (16 colour plates, posthumously 1940 US, 1950 UK)

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