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REPRINT RACKHAM EDITION. 4to. (9.7 x 7.2 inches). Colour frontis and thirty nine tipped-in colour plates, each with a printed tissue paper guard. Thirty black and white illustrations, some full page, throughout the text. A lovely clean copy. Small crease to the bottom corner of the frontis plate otherwise a very good copy, Finely bound, for Henry Sotheran of London, in recent full dark brown Levant Morocco. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Decorative gilt border roll on the inside of the boards. All edges gilt. Original blue cloth spine and both boards bound in at the back. A fine copy of this beautiful book. Rackham at his very best.

First edition thus. Quarto. pp [vi], 134. 40 tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, including frontispiece. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Free endpapers lightly tanned. Several mysterious small holes in the cloth, but still a very good copy indeed.

FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. 4to. (10.1 x 7.7 inches). Colour frontis and thirty nine tipped-in colour plates, each with a printed tissue paper guard, and 30 fine line drawings by Rackham throughout the text, some full page. Finely bound in recent full tan morocco. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Red title label, gilt. Some light foxing throughout but still a very good copy of this beautiful book in an attractive leather binding. Rackham at his very best.

First edition thus: tipped-in colour frontispiece and 39 mounted colour plates by Arthur Rackham, all with captioned tissue guards; also numerous black and white illustrations. Quarto. pp [vi], 134. Pictorial cloth gilt.Near-contemporary (1911) gift inscription on front free endpaper. One or two small flecks of foxing here and there. Some tanning to free endpapers. Light spotting to spine. Very good indeed in the scarce dustwrapper which is a bit rubbed and darkened at the spine, nicked at the edges, and with closed tears to the folds at the joints. A bright copy.