RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator); WAGNER, Richard.
The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie; Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods.
The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie; Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods.
[Otherwise known as] The Ring of the Niblung. A Trilogy with a Prelude by Richard Wagner translated into English by Margaret Armour.
Stock Code 120438
London, William Heinemann, 1910 & 1911.
The first act of The Rhinegold opens with rocky cavern in a wood, in which stands a naturally formed smith's forge, with big bellows. Mime sits in front of the anvil, busily hammering at a sword.
'Slavery! worry!
Labour all lost!
The strongest sword
That ever I forged,
That the hands of giants
Fitly might wield,
This insolent urchin
For whom it is fashioned
Can snap in two at one stroke,
As if the thing were a toy!'
First Trade edition; 2 vols, 4to (260 x 200 mm); engraved title and 64 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue-guards by Rackham, a couple quires slip at hinges but sound, some very mild offsetting from tissue-guards (much less than usual), creasing to blank upper corners of pp 1-3 and a couple of leaves slightly roughly cut in the first vol., a couple of marks to blank margins of p.86 in vol. ii, otherwise very good; publisher's original tan cloth, illustrated and titled gilt blocks to both upper covers, gilt titled spines, mildly rubbed at extremities with mild, minor soiling, otherwise very good and still bright; [WITH] advertisement leaf laid in, printed in red, announcing the sale of the original water-colour drawings by Rackham at the Leicester Galleries.
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