Item #72082 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. Richard WAGNER, Arthur RACKHAM, Margaret ARMOUR.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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. No ink names, contents clean, edges of text blocks lightly toned, bindings carefully used with a few small marks/nicks. Very good indeed. A superb example of Rackham's dramatic interpretation of Wagner's libretti, his only work for adults. London-born Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) studied drawing at evening classes at Lambeth School of Art (from 1884) for 7 years whilst working full-time in insurance. He began his career using the then new half-tone process, his fame spreading upon publication of his illustrated Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1909. 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). Item #72082

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