105 BAUMAN RARE BOOKS Deluxe Signed Limited Edition Of Rackham’s Illustrated Irish Fairy Tales, One Of Only 520 Signed By Rackham 118(RACKHAM, Arthur) STEPHENS, James. Irish Fairy Tales. London, 1920. Large, thick quarto, original half vellum, custom slipcase. $4600 Deluxe signed limited first edition, one of only 520 copies signed by Rackham, with 16 wonderful color plates mounted on cream stock and 21 in-text line illustrations. Rackham’s lively rendition of Stephens’ Tales exploits those present-day advances in color printing that “enabled him to use subtle tints and muted tones to represent age and timelessness” (Houfe, 268). Upper corner gently bumped, lower corners lightly rubbed. A near-fine, lovely copy. Shakespeare’s Tempest, Illustrated And Signed By Arthur Rackham 119(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest. London and New York, 1926. Quarto, original half vellum, dust jacket, custom slipcase. $4200 Deluxe signed limited first edition, one of only 520 copies, with 21 full-page mounted color illustrations and 25 in-text line cuts, signed by Rackham, uncut and unopened, in scarce original dust jacket. Rackham’s “excitingly original edition of The Tempest showed [him] experimenting in a simplified dramatic technique that was refreshingly and effectively ‘modern’” (Derek Hudson). This edition contains an extra color plate not issued in the trade edition. Scarce original dust jacket with moderate wear, including three chips to spine; boards with light spotting. Text and plates bright and fine. A lovely copy
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