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Arthur Rackham Early Editions

Portion of illustration from 'Peter Pan in Kensington Garden'

Effie Lee Morris Historical and Research Collection of Children's Literature - Arthur Rackham Early Editions

Books in the Collection:

  • Aesop. Aesop's Fables. 13 color plates. William Heinemann & Doubleday Page, 1912. First trade edition.
  • Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Garden. 50 tipped-in color plates. Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. Sixth edition, stated.
  • Bianco, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco. 7 color plates, one of which is tipped-in. George Doran, 1925First trade edition. Illustrated endpapers.
  • Brothers Grimm. Little Brother and Little Sister and other Tales. 12 tipped-in color plates. Constable, London, 1917. First trade edition, stated.
  • Brothers Grimm. Snow Drop and other Tales. Illustrated. Doubleday Page, 1923. Lacks three plates.
  • Dickens, Charles. The Christmas Carol. 4 color plates. Lippincott, (no date).
  • Evans, C.S. retold by. The Sleeping Beauty. 1 color plate and silhouettes throughout. William Heinemann & Lippincott, (no date). First American trade edition.
  • Fitzgerald, S.J. Adair. The Zank-I Wank and the Bletherwitch. Illustrated throughout. Dent, London, 1896. First British edition.
  • Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. 12 color plates. David McKay, (no date). First American trade edition. Illustrated endpapers.
  • Grimm. Translated by Edgar Lucas. Grimm's Fairy Tales. 40 tipped-in color plates. Constable, London, 1909. First trade edition. Includes a 3" x 4" drawing of the Godmother and Cat, signed by Rackham on the half-title.
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Hawthorne's Wonder Book. Garden City, (no date). Reprint.
  • Ibsen, Henrik. Peer Gynt. 12 color plates. George Harrap, 1936. First trade edition.
  • Ingoldsby, Thomas. Ingoldsby Legends. 24 tipped-in color. Dent, London, Dutton, N.Y., 1907. First trade edition. Includes a 2" x 3" drawing of the devil, signed by Rackham on the half-title.
  • Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. 51 tipped-in color plates. William Heinemann, Doubleday Page, 1910. First edition, Fifth printing stated.
  • Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare. 12 color plates. Dent and Dutton, 1909. First American trade edition.
  • Milton, John. Comus. 24 tipped-in color plates. William Heinemann, Doubleday, (no date, c. 1921). First trade edition.
  • Rackham, Arthur. Allies Fairy Book. 12 tipped-in color plates. William Heinemann & Lippincott (no date, c. 1916). Limited edition number 326 of 525. Signed by Rackham.
  • Rackham, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures. 44 tipped in color plates. William Heinemann, London, 1913. First British trade edition.
  • Rackham, Arthur. The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. 8 full-page illustrations. George Harrap, London, 1933. First trade edition (stated). 8 volumes.
  • Rackham, Arthur. Some British Ballads. 16 tipped-in color plates. constable, London, (no date, c. 1919). Illustrated end papers, hence later printing.
  • Ruskin, John. The King of the Golden River. 3 color plates. Lippincott, (no date, c. 1932). First American trade edition.
  • Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. 40 tipped-in color plates. William Heinemann, Doubleday, Page, 1908. First British trade edition.
  • Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. 40 tipped-in color plates. William Heinemann, Doubleday Page, 1911. First edition, second imprint stated.
  • Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. 20 tipped-in color plates. William Heinemann & Doubleday Page, 1926. First trade edition stated.
  • Stephens, James. Irish Fairy Tales. 16 color plates. Macmillan, 1920. First British trade edition.
  • Swinburne, Algernon, Charles. The Springtide of Life: Poems of Childhood. 8 color plates. William Heinemann, 1918. First British trade edition.
  • Wagner, Richard. Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods. 30 tipped-in color plates. William Heinemann, Doubleday Page, 1911. First British trade edition.
  • Wagner, Richard. Translated by Armour. The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie. 34 tipped-in color plates. William Heinemann & Doubleday Page, 1916. First trade edition.
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