Lot 2079 , Rackham, Arthur (illustrator) – 7 works – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, new edition, 4to, 50 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original green cloth, decorative gilt, London, Hodder & Stoug

° Rackham, Arthur (illustrator) – 7 works – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, new edition, 4to, 50 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original green cloth, decorative gilt, London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]; William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, first trade edition, 40 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original beige cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover, London, Heinemann, 1908; Richard Wagner – Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods, translated by Margaret Armour, first trade edition, 4to, 30 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original beige cloth, pictorial gilt, London, Heinemann, 1911; Richard Wagner – The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie, translated by Margaret Armour, first trade edition, 4to, 34 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original beige cloth, pictorial gilt, London, Heinemann, 1910; Hans Andersen – Fairy Tales – reprint, 4to, colour plates, original red cloth, London, G.G. Harrap, 1932; Some British Ballads, first trade edition, 4to, 16 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original blue cloth, London, Constable & Co. Ltd., [1919]; and a duplicate of the last (7).
£300-500

Condition:
‘Peter Pan’: some spotting to title, occasional scattered spotting, pencil annotation to illustration list, creasing to 2 tissues, purple stain spots to lower cover, spine sunned, no inscriptions, spine ends rubbed; ‘Midsummer’: e/papers browned o/wise internally clean, no inscriptions, v. lightly bumped extremities; ‘Siegfried’: light spotting and browning to first leaves o/ wise occasional browning, corner crease to frontispiece, sl. dulling to spine; ‘The Rhinegold’: lacking front e/paper, gift inscribed to front blank, browning and offsetting, stained to tail of spine panel, lightly rubbed; ‘Fairy Tales’: gift inscribed verso front e/paper, corner and marginal losses to pp.189-191, cloth sl. faded, extremities bumped; ‘Some British Ballads’: toned, tissues browned, no inscriptions, spine sl. dulled, extremities bumped.

Sold for £440