[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Mother Goose The Old Nursery Rhymes
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Description
London: William Heinemann, (1913). First and limited edition, #948/1,100 numbered copies, signed by Rackham (from a total edition of 1,130). 4to. (xii), (160) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 12 color plates, all mounted and all with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations, with some offsetting to close pages. Publisher's white cloth, decorated in gilt, spine darkened, boards a little soiled; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, some pages unopened; prelims foxed. Latimore & Haskell, p. 40; Riall, p. 115
Laid in is a notice for an exhibition of Rackham’s original Mother Goose watercolors on show at The Leicester Galleries in London, October 11 to November 15, 1913.
Provenance
From the Children’s and Illustrated Books Library of Nicholas Wedge, Ossining, New York
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