PERRAULT, Charles; RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator).
Mother Goose.
Mother Goose.
The Old Nursery Rhymes
Stock Code 115556
London, William Heinemann, 1913
First edition, deluxe issue, number 569 of 1130 copies signed and numbered by the artist; 4to (295 x 140 mm), 13 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, illustrations in text, a few text-leaves unopened, laid-in advertisement for an exhibition of Rackham's original watercolours for the work, dated 1913, browning to half-title (with resultant showing to verso) and final page of Index at rear, small area of slight browning to p. 29, mild spotting to a few tissue-guards, more evident to that of the frontispiece with slight offsetting to title, the occasional, minor, light spot, otherwise very good; publisher's white cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, spine browned, covers slightly marked, light spotting to endpapers, a couple of edges roughly but again, otherwise very good.
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