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Perrault, Charles; Rackham, Arthur (illustrator).
Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes.
Publisher: William Heinemann, London;
Date of Publication: 1913
Stock Code: 12522
First trade edition. Small quarto, pp.159, xi, [1], [1]. Illustrated with 13 colour plates, including frontispiece, with tissue guards captioned in brown, and additional black and white illustrations throughout by Rackham. Bound in the original publishers’ pictorial cloth with cross stitch style titles and ornaments to upper board and. spine. Top edge blue. Illustrated endpapers.

Cloth slightly spine sunned and little rubbed to spine-tips and corners but otherwise clean. Light sporadic foxing to text-block, contents clean and free from marks, annotations and ownership inscriptions. A very good copy. First trade edition, first issue with illustrated endpapers. Enchanting collection of the best-loved nursery-rhymes by Charles Perrault illustrated in Rackham’s characteristic style. A leading figure of the Golden Age of British book illustration, Rackham’s dark and ethereal approach to his subjects continues to influence artists, illustrators and film directors to this day.
£200.00