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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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contributes 'Man Overboard. An Episode of the Red Sea' to Harmsworth Magazine.
London: Harmsworth Bros., 1898-99. FIRST PRINTING; the original appearance as published in volume 1 of Harmsworth's Monthly Pictorial Magazine, (January 1899), illustrated by Henry Austin. Also contains the short story 'A Princess In Green and Tan' by Arthur Preston, featuring six illustrations from a young Arthur Rackham, drawn very much..... More
![Item #59230 Cinderella [together with] The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. C. S....](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/59230.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1616694391)
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
Peer Gynt, A Dramatic Poem by Henrik Ibsen Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: George G. Harrap, 1936. [Illustrated Drama] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[2] 256 [2]. With 12 colour illustrations by Rackham, including a frontispiece, and occasional in-text vignettes. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge brown, with illustrated endpapers. Two..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. [Children's Illustrated] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, DELUXE SIGNED ISSUE, number 347 of 560 copies. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xx; 549 [3]. With twenty-four mounted coloured plates, captioned tissue guards, twelve illustrations with tint, and sixty-six line drawings. Publisher's gilt decorated white vellum with fore-edge ties..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends. Or, Mirth and Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1907. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, thus. Large octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.[xix]; 549. With twenty-four mounted coloured plates, captioned tissue guards, twelve illustrations with tint, and sixty-six line drawings. Publisher's mid-green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, with illustrated dark green endpapers, top edge gilt, and..... More
Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1935. [Illustrated Strange Tales] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (28 x 21cm), pp.[2] 318 [2]. With 12 fine colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard, and 17 line drawings, all by Rackham. Number 329 of 460 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator..... More
The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table. Abridged from Malory's Mort D'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1917. [Legends] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Square octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.xxiv; 509; [1]. With sixteen colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations by Rackham. Publisher's gilt-decorated blue cloth. Contents clean. Armorial bookplate of [Major] Rupert Trevor Wallace Glynn, MC. Some light flecking to cloth..... More
The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table. Abridged from Malory's Mort D'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1917. [Illustrated British Legends] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Square octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.xxiv; 509 [1]. With 16 colour plates and seven black and white, illustrated by Rackham. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. An ink ownership to fly-leaf dated..... More
Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes.
New York: The Century Co., 1913. [Children's illustrated] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (24 x 19cm), pp.262. With thirteen colour plates including frontispiece, and numerous black and white illustrations within the text. Publisher's black cloth, colour illustration pasted down to upper, gilt titles to spine. Contents clean, edges gently toned, bookplate..... More
Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes.
London: William Heinemann, no date [1913]. [Children's illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 160. Thirteen colour plates with captioned tissue guards, and a further eighty-five engravings within the text. Publisher's grey cloth decoratively stamped in colours, illustrated endpapers, top edge green, others untrimmed. No inscriptions..... More
A Midsummer Night's Dream. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1908. [Fantasy drama] First Rackham Illustrated Edition. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.134. With forty tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guards. Bound in publisher's gilt-decorated light brown buckram. Some acceptable spotting/browning, lacks initial blank, cloth gently toned to spine, minor soil at foot. A very good..... More
A Midsummer Night's Dream. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1908. [Fantasy drama] First Rackham Illustrated Edition. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.134. With 40 tipped-in colour plates, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue-guard. Publisher's cream cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Presented in a custom-made cream cloth clamshell box, lined with..... 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 Bookman Christmas Double Number 1915. December 1915. No. 291. Vol. 49.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, December 1915. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE SPECIAL. Folio (34 x 23cm), pp.xx; 65-108; 149; xxi-xxix. Not including the special portfolio of colour plates by Bernard Partridge. With numerous in-text black and white illustrations, and occasional colour plates by various artists, including a frontispiece by Rackham. Publisher's..... More
The Bookman Christmas Double Number 1912. December 1912. No. 255. Vol. 43.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, December 1912. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE SPECIAL. Folio (34 x 23cm), pp.xvi; 133-196; 217; xvii-xxxv. Not including the special portfolio of colour plates by Dulac, and also lacking the frontispiece portrait of Kipling. With numerous in-text black and white illustrations, and occasional colour plates by various..... More
The Ring of the Niblung. A Trilogy with a Prelude by Richard Wagner: The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie together with Siegfried and The Twilight of the Gods. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Armour.
London: William Heinemann, 1910, 1911. [Norse Saga] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS, second impression and first impression respectively. 2 volumes, quarto (26 x 20cm). Illustrated with tipped-in colour plates. Publisher's light brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, titles and decoration in gilt to upper, pictorial endpapers; top edge tinted brown..... More
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