"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
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Arthur Rackham | First Editions
1867 - 1939
London-born artist Arthur Rackham studied drawing at evening classes at Lambeth School of Art (1884) for 7 years whilst working full-time in insurance. He began to illustrate books, using the then new half-tone process his fame spreading upon publication of his illustrated Grimm's Fairy Tales. In 1905 his illustrated Rip van Winkle introduced him to the US public; one year later Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens was published. Rackham was made a full member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in 1908, and was honoured abroad with gold medals from Milan (1906) and Barcelona (1911).His illustrations for many classics followed including Alice In Wonderland (1907), Gulliver's Travels (1909), Aesop's Fables (1912), A Christmas Carol (1915), King Arthur (1917) Cinderella (1919), Sleepy Hollow (1928), The Night Before Christmas (1931), Hans Andersen (1932), The Pied Pier of Hamelin (1934) and Poe's Tales (1935). His final book was The Wind In the Willows (1940).
See below our stock of Arthur Rackham First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London, George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1932. [Fairy tales] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED deluxe issue. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.288. With twelve full-page coloured plates with tissue guards and many full page and in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's gilt-stamped parchment over boards, top edge gilt, others..... More
Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London, George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1932. [Fairy tales] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.288. With twelve full-page coloured plates with tissue guards and many full page and in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's russet cloth blocked in gilt, illustrated dust-wrapper in original card gift box..... More
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Cinderella [together with] The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919, 1920. [Children's] FIRST EDITIONS THUS. 2 volumes, large octavos (26 x 20cm). Tipped-in colour frontispiece to each volume and numerous black and white silhouettes and three-tone illustrations. Publisher's red and yellow pictorial covers, cloth spines lettered in black, illustrated green endpapers to first volume, pictorial dust-wrappers..... More
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Cinderella [together with] The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919, 1920. [Children's] FIRST EDITIONS THUS. 2 volumes, large octavos (26 x 20cm). Tipped-in colour frontispiece to each volume and numerous black and white silhouettes and three-tone illustrations. Publisher's red and yellow pictorial covers, cloth spines lettered in black, illustrated green endpapers to first volume. A very..... More
Cinderella. Together with The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919 and 1920. FIRST EDITIONS thus. 2 volumes, large octavos. Publisher's red and yellow pictorial covers, cloth spines, in red and grey illustrated dust-wrappers. Tipped-in colour frontispiece to each volume and numerous black and white silhouettes and three-toned illustrations. Owner name to 'Cinderella', some edge spotting to..... More
The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Children's illustrated classic] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.110; [1], imprint; [1], blank. Tipped-in colour plate to first chapter; illustrated throughout with Rackham's silhouettes. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with cloth spine; titles and decoration in black and pink, illustrated green endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket..... More
The Vicar of Wakefield.
London: George G. Harrap and Company, Limited, 1929. [English Literature] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.232. With twelve plates in colour and several black and white illustrations. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles and floral decoration to, top edge gilt, illustrated end papers. Contents fine, discreet gift..... More
Rip Van Winkle. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1905. [Children's Illustrated] FINELY BOUND FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. Quarto (25 x 19cm), with 51 mounted colour plates bound together after the text. Bound in dark green morocco over original green cloth boards with gilt design to upper. Very light spotting, plates clean without creases. Near fine. Set..... More
Rip Van Winkle. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, November 1905. [Children's Illustrated]FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue, second impression. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All..... More
Rip Van Winkle. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, February 1907. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue, second impression. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Elegantly rebound in half dark green oasis morocco, tooled in gilt to..... More
Rip Van Winkle. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1905. [Children's Illustrated]FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges blue; dark..... More
The Compleat Angler. Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish and Fishing not unworthy the Perusal of most Anglers. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: George C. Harrap and Co., Ltd., 1931. First Rackham Edition. Large octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.224. With 12 colour plates plus black and white illustrations in text. Finely bound in recent blue half morocco with gilt titles and decorative fish to spine, original publisher's boards with decorative titles stamped..... More
Don Gypsy: Adventures with a Fiddle in Barbary, Andalusia and La Mancha.
London: John Murray, 1936. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi, 525 [3]. With six photographic plates, a map, and a frontispiece and title-page vignette by Arthur Rackham.In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light spotting to prelims and edges. Spine sunned and rubbed. Good overall. More
The Compleat Angler. Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish, and Fishing not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers.
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1931. FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.224. Publisher's blue-green cloth, gilt to spine and upper board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated dustwrapper. With twelve tissue-guarded colour plate illustrations. Internally clean and fine. Jacket with a short creased tear to upper..... More
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