signed first edition
1931 · London
by [Arthur Rackham, Illustrator] Charles Dickens
London: Printed by George W. Jones for Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1931. First thus. Near Fine. Limited to 1500 copies signed by the artist, this being copy number 277. Small folio (300 x 203 mm). Collating xxxii, [4], 128, [2]. Rebound in three-quarter tan morocco over boards using publisher's original pictorial buckram. Top edge gilt. Six full page illustrations and fourteen drawings in black and white. A handsome, Near Fine copy, lacking the publisher's slipcase, but retaining the original decorative end papers. Internal contents are generally fresh and clean.
Introduction writer Edward Wagenknecht (1900-2004) "was the last surviving great scholar bookman to be born at the end of the Victorian era. He wrote two seminal works on the English and American novel, and a long line of critical literary biographies from 1929 to 1994... His first major biography [was] The Man Charles Dickens: A Victorian Portrait (1929)... Two years later Wagenknecht successfully persuaded Arthur Rackham to illustrate Dickens's Christmas tale The Chimes for the Limited Editions Club" (Independent).
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic—from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe.
Latimore and Haskell 67. Near Fine. (Inventory #: 6565)
Introduction writer Edward Wagenknecht (1900-2004) "was the last surviving great scholar bookman to be born at the end of the Victorian era. He wrote two seminal works on the English and American novel, and a long line of critical literary biographies from 1929 to 1994... His first major biography [was] The Man Charles Dickens: A Victorian Portrait (1929)... Two years later Wagenknecht successfully persuaded Arthur Rackham to illustrate Dickens's Christmas tale The Chimes for the Limited Editions Club" (Independent).
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic—from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe.
Latimore and Haskell 67. Near Fine. (Inventory #: 6565)