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LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER
by Rackham, Arthur; Brothers Grimm
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- Very good minus.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: Constable, 1917. Very good minus.. Signed limited edition of this lavish illustrated collection of Grimm tales, including Snow White - one of only 525 numbered copies signed by Rackham, with the additional signed color plate. A collection of 40 illustrated fairy tales, this is a hard-to-find limited edition with great Rackham illustrations, rarely found complete with the extra color plate. Quarto. 11.5'' x 8.75''. Original grey cloth with pictorial gilt-stamped label. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Rackham with 13 beautiful tipped-in color plates (one more than in the trade edition) and 43 black & whites to accompany 40 fairy tales. xii, 251, [1] pages. Faint ink owner name on front pastedown. Signed by Rackham on the limitation page. Additional color plate signed by Rackham in the original printed envelope. Bottom edge of boards and text block has a dampstain, generally only faintly visible, some areas with a visible line, others only with a bit of a ripple. Shallow edgewear to laid-in envelope, with half-inch chip to top edge.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36067
- Title
- LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER
- Author
- Rackham, Arthur; Brothers Grimm
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good minus.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1917
- Keywords
- Limited Edition,20th century,English & British,Mythology & Folklore,Golden Age,Fairy Tales
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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