Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. [SIGNED Numbered Limited Edition – Original Cloth Binding]. London, New York and Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd. For full description see below – after all photographs. London, New York and Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd, 1922, SIGNED Numbered Limited Edition. Fine limited edition, signed and numbered in ink by Arthur Rackham to the limitation page: This Edition is limited to six hundred copies numbered and signed by the artist. This copy is number’120′. Cream coloured buckram (full cloth) boards, gilt titles and illustration to the front board, gilt titles to the spine with the publisher’s details at the base, moderate shelf wear, rub, toning. Pictorial endpapers of young boy and girl walking towards a tree. Thick heavy stock pages, with gilt top. Edge, others untrimmed, clean with attractive toning. Frontispiece mounted colour plate with captioned tissue guard: “Pandora and Epimetheus”. Illustrated with fifteen further full-colour mounted plates on darker stock paper, all with tissue guards. An additional eight full-page duo-chromatic illustrations, many resembling a Japanese influence, with cations. Contents include: The Gorgon’s Head; The Golden Touch; The Paradise of Children; The Three Golden Apples; The Miraculous Pitcher; The Chimaera. Printed in Great Britain by T. At the Edinburgh University Press. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates. Spine – good condition – slightly darkened, gilt titles. Joints – good condition. Corners – good condition – minor rubbing and wear. Boards – good condition – gilt decorated to the front board, minor marks to the rear board. Page edges – good condition – gilt top edge, others untrimmed. See above and photos. Hinges – good condition – sound, some straining to gutters internally. Paste downs – good condition – pictorial, tanned, minor foxing. Free end papers – good condition – foxed. Title – good condition – tanned. Pages – good condition – tanned, minor foxing. Binding – good condition. Publication Date: 1922 Binding: Hardback. We take great pride in photographing all our books, maps and prints and in describing every detail. Ruler in picture is 6 inches long. Please Browse all other books and prints in my Shop.
