Lot 155
Rackham (Arthur).- Ingoldsby (Thomas) The Ingoldsby Legends, one of 560 copies signed by the illustrator, London & New York, 1907; and 2 other limited editions signed by Rackham (3)
Hammer Price: £600
Description
Rackham (Arthur).- Ingoldsby (Thomas) The Ingoldsby Legends, one of 560 copies signed by the illustrator, tipped-in colour frontispiece and 23 plates by Arthur Rackham, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations and pictorial endpapers, light foxing to first few ff., pp.74-6 badly opened with marginal loss, tissue-guard at p.202 torn, light creasing to some plate corners and guards, leaf edges slightly brittle with few short marginal tears, light browning, upper hinge cracked, original pictorial vellum, gilt, ties detached but loosely inserted, gilt to spine little faded in few places, light creasing and soiling to spine foot, few other small patches of soiling, still overall a good and bright copy, housed in cloth slip-case, 1907; and 2 other limited editions signed by Rackham, Comus & Undine, 4to (3)
Description
Rackham (Arthur).- Ingoldsby (Thomas) The Ingoldsby Legends, one of 560 copies signed by the illustrator, tipped-in colour frontispiece and 23 plates by Arthur Rackham, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations and pictorial endpapers, light foxing to first few ff., pp.74-6 badly opened with marginal loss, tissue-guard at p.202 torn, light creasing to some plate corners and guards, leaf edges slightly brittle with few short marginal tears, light browning, upper hinge cracked, original pictorial vellum, gilt, ties detached but loosely inserted, gilt to spine little faded in few places, light creasing and soiling to spine foot, few other small patches of soiling, still overall a good and bright copy, housed in cloth slip-case, 1907; and 2 other limited editions signed by Rackham, Comus & Undine, 4to (3)