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The Arthur Rackham fairy book : a book of old favourites with new illustrations.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC9 R1154 933a
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fairy tales.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 286 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Manufacture:
- Edinburgh : Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Limited.
- Place of Publication:
- London : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., [1933]
- Contents:
- Hop-o'-my-thumb
- Dick Whittington
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Beauty and the Beast
- Henny-Penny
- The story of Sinbad the Sailor
- Jack the Giant-killer
- The Ugly Duckling
- The Princess and the Pea
- Blue Beard
- The Story of Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp
- The Sleeping Beauty
- The Barmecide's Feast
- Toads and Diamonds
- The Three Bears
- Ali Baba
- Cinderella
- Puss in Boots
- The Emperor's New Clothes
- Rip Van Winkle
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Hansel and Grethel
- What the Old Man does is always right.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- "This Edition is limited to Four Hundred and Sixty copies, of which Four Hundred and Fifty copies are for sale."
- Illustrated t.-p.
- "Published 1933 by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. ..."
- "For this book I have gone to those old favourites of the nursery that have such a hold on our affections that their incidents, characters, and even phrases have become part of our lives ... The illustrations are new and have never been published before, though in the case of several of the stories this is not the first time that it has fallen to my lot to illustrate them, in the thirty years and more that my work has led me through enchanted lands."--Illustrator's Preface.
- The color illustrations on glossy paper all have a blank facing page on which the title of the illustration is printed.
- Parchment binding stamped in gold. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers in olive green on white, with illustrations depicting Puss in Boots by Arthur Rackham. Ribbon marker.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection is no. 409 signed Arthur Rackham.
- Cited in:
- Riall, R. Arthur Rackham, p. 182
- Latimore & Haskell. Arthur Rackham, p. 69
- OCLC:
- 15533717
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