Lot 339 , Wagner, Richard - The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie. 1st trade edition. title illus., 34 coloured and mounted plates with captioned guards, text decorations and coloured pictorial e/ps. by Arthur Rackham; publisher's gilt p

° Wagner, Richard - The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie. 1st trade edition. title illus., 34 coloured and mounted plates with captioned guards, text decorations and coloured pictorial e/ps. by Arthur Rackham; publisher's gilt pictorial cloth. 1910; Bunyan, John - Pilgrim's Progress. Illustrated by the late Charles H. Bennett. title in red and black, portrait frontis., 43 plates (within red ruled borders), num. text engravings; original gilt pictorial and decorated cloth, ge. Bradbury, Evans & Co., (1869?); sold with a copy of Gay's Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (edited W.H. Williams, 1922) (3)
£40-60

Condition:
Wagner - spine lt. worn head/tail and faded, covers marked and discoloured, front inner hinge weak, prelims. spotted, last 2 text leaves with soiling (mostly marginal), possibly lacks final leaf (?printer's imprint ?). Rackham (1910) Exhibition flyer loosely inserted. First vol. of the trilogy; Bunyan - cloth discoloured and faded, joints split and hinges weak; lightly soiled frontis. and half title; xliv, 356pp.(incl. half title), and advert leaf; preface Chas. Kingsley; Gay - e/ps. with plan and illus.(offset to e/ps), port. and 15 plts., gilt dec. buckram, 4to.

Unsold