RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator); Henrik Ibsen.

Peer Gynt.

Stock Code 112725

London, Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1936

£1,750.00 - £1,750.00

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£1,750.00

£1,750.00 - £1,750.00

£1,750.00

Signed by Rackham. Rackham's Peer Gynt was his penultimate work. 'Remarkably fresh and interesting' - Hudson.

First Rackham edition. Limited to 460 copies (450 for sale) signed by Arthur Rackham; 4to; 12 colour plates, including frontispiece, black and white illustrations in text, captioned tissue guards, publisher's deluxe full vellum, stamped in gilt, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, a fine copy.

Hudson p. 73; Cf Latimore & Haskell p. 74 (U.S. edition).

Provenance

Provenance: Naval hydrographer Captain Richard Campbell (bookplate).

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