Rip Van Winkle with Drawings by Arthur Rackham

Irving, Washington

Editore: William Heinemann - Doubleday, Page & Co., London - New York, 1924

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First edition, early printing; October 1924. Large 7 3/4" x 10" design. Deep green full-cloth boards, crisp cover and spine titles, moderate shelf wear, bow. Cover depicts sharp Rackham design of an elder Rip with children beneath tree. Pages near fine, clean. Bind fine; hinges intact. Includes fifty-one wonderfully vibrant color plates with captioned tissue guards from the inimitable Arthur Rackham and sixty-one pages of text. Each of the plates tipped-in on heavy stock green matte leaves. Green text block at all sides. Rare original pictorial wrapper, some edge wear, chip; unclipped 21/- net, protected in new clear sleeve. Front and spine matching boards in design, stylish titles w/Heinemann at heel. Back panel features available details and titles from Heinemann of Arthur Rackham in gift book form. Fresh example of this beautiful collection in clean boards and retaining original dust jacket. Set into book are letters of 1999 to and from Christie's South Kensington with their letterhead concerning estimation and submission, etc. The typed inquiry originated from a Mrs. Slatter of Merseyside in Liverpool. Made and Printed in Great Britain. Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, Bungay, Suffolk. Insured post. Set in Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving's slumbersome tale is an American masterpiece of short prose, based on local history but rooted in European myth and legend. Wandering through the mountains to escape from his nagging wife, Rip Van Winkle encounters a stranger and a group of small oddly dressed people playing a strange game with bowls of a magical beverage. An enduring foundation of Catskill lore, the captivating narrative continues the fanciful adventures of an amiable ne'er-do-well colonial farmer who wanders into the highlands, falls asleep after drinking with a band of strange little mountain men, and awakes twenty years later in a world that has passed him by. Effusing a gentle humor, Rackham's art is a constant reminder of a more innocent era. This edition sure to enchant art lovers will also delight Rackham devotees and fantasy fans alike. This edition features all fifty-one full-page color plates, as well as the full text of Irving's classic. The multitude of "illustrations, for a story of not more than five-thousand words, enables the story to be told twice, once through Irving's words, and once again, image by image, through Rackham's pictures. In his illustrations, Rackham pays homage not only to Dürer, Cruikshank and Dutch seventeenth-century painting, but to contemporary artists, too." (Hamilton)." This is the work that greatly advanced Arthur Rackham's fame and decisively established him as the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period. These magnificent illustrations, created for this 1905 edition of Washington Irving's enchanting fairy tale, established Rackham. The illustrations feature traits that soon were to characterize much of Rackham's art: flowing pen lines and muted watercolors, forests of looming trees, lovely fairy maidens, and quizzical troll-like figures. Today these images are recognized as among his very best. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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• Titolo: Rip Van Winkle with Drawings by Arthur Rackham
• Editore: William Heinemann - Doubleday, Page & Co., London - New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1924
• Rilegatura: Hard Cover
• Disegnatore: Rackham, Arthur
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Good