Lot 2076 , Rackham, Arthur (illustrator), 3 works – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, first trade edition, first issue, sm. 4to, 12 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original olive cloth, pictorial gilt to upper c

° Rackham, Arthur (illustrator), 3 works – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, first trade edition, first issue, sm. 4to, 12 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original olive cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover, London, Heinemann, 1915; Eden Phillpotts, A Dish of Apples, sm. 4to, 3 tipped-in colour plates, tissue-guards, original grey pictorial cloth, London & New York, Hodder & Stoughton, [1921]; F.A. Steel, English Fairy Tales, first trade edition, 8vo, colour plates, original red cloth, London, Macmillan, 1918. Together with 2 more volumes illustrated by Rackham, reprints (5).
£120-180

Condition:
‘Christmas Carol’: light spotting to f/free e/paper, toning, spine dulled, lightly rubbed extremities, sm. stain to upper cover; ‘A Dish of Apples’: Provenance: W.H. Prior, gift inscribed to on initial blank, light spotting to preliminaries, occasionally thereafter, sl. soiling to half-title; ‘English Fairy Tales’: Provenance

Sold for £190