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Rip Van Winkle
by [Rackham, Arthur] Irving, Washington
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- first
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1905. First edition. Collating viii, 57, [1 blank], [2]. Publishers green cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine, plain green endpapers, all edges stained green. Color frontispiece and fifty color plates mounted with lettered tissue guards. Preliminary text leaves foxed, otherwise an excellent copy.
"The 51 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). "But the first work that greatly advanced his fame in the years immediately following his marriage was his edition of Rip Van Winkle... This lovely book decisively established Rackham as the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period" (Hudson).
Latimore and Haskell 26. Riall 69-70. Gettings 176. Hamilton 68. Hudson 57, 167. Hudson 180 (Rackham bookplate).
"The 51 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). "But the first work that greatly advanced his fame in the years immediately following his marriage was his edition of Rip Van Winkle... This lovely book decisively established Rackham as the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period" (Hudson).
Latimore and Haskell 26. Riall 69-70. Gettings 176. Hamilton 68. Hudson 57, 167. Hudson 180 (Rackham bookplate).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Whitmore Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3731
- Title
- Rip Van Winkle
- Author
- [Rackham, Arthur] Irving, Washington
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1905
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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