Cinderella by EVANS, C.S - 1919

Edition de Luxe, in the Original Dust Jacket [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. Cinderella. Retold by C.S. Evans and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, [1919]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 850 copies, numbered and signed by the illustrator, of which this is one of 525 copies on English handmade paper. Large quarto (11 3/16 x 8 15/16 inches; 284 x 225 mm.). 110, [1, printerís imprint], [1, blank] pp. Mounted color frontispiece with color pictorial border and tissue guard. Three double-page silhouette drawings with color, one single-page silhouette drawing with color (not included in the trade edition), thirteen single-page silhouette drawings without color, and thirty-six silhouette drawings in the text. Title with color pictorial border. Original quarter tan buckram over green boards pictorially stamped and lettered in black on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial endpapers in green and white. Some edgewear and offsetting. In the original green dust jacket printed in black to match the boards. Jacket with tape repair along spine, front and rear flaps and a small piece to top of front cover and top of rear cover. A small chip to dust jacket on top of rear cover and on top and bottom of spine. A very good copy. Latimore and Haskell, pp. 49-50. Riall, pp. 134-135. HBS 67277. $1,750