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Ruskin, John & Rackham, Arthur (illustrator).
The King of the Golden River.
Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1932
Stock Code: 8709
Number 64 in a deluxe limited edition of 570 copies signed by the artist Arthur Rackham. Tall octavo, pp., 48. With 4 full-page plates in colour including frontispiece, vignette to title-page and numerous in-text illustrations, head- and tail-pieces. Cream limp vellum with gilt titles to upper board and green-and-white pictorial patterned end-papers; top-edge gilt, others uncut. Housed in maroon pebbled cloth solander box with gilt titles to spine. A clean and bright copy with Art Deco bookplate of Foster Kennedy to front free end-paper, and Rackham’s signature to limitation leaf. Box slightly spine sunned and rubbed with a little wear to spine tips and corners. A near fine copy in very good box. One of the earliest English fairy stories written for children, a charming tale featuring three brothers and their supernatural visitor the South West Wind, here illustrated in characteristic style by Arthur Rackham. £350.00