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Annotated Bibliography (continued)
The Land of Enchantment . London : Cassell, 1907.
First edition. Twelve full-page illustrations in halftone, twenty-four drawings in text with yellow background. Stories and illustrations appeared first in Little Folks magazine between 1896 and 1902.
Malory, Thomas, Sir. The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, abridged from Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917.
First American trade edition. Includes sixteen mounted color plates, seven full-page drawings, and sixty-three drawings within the text by Arthur Rackham. Each color plate accompanied by tissue guard-sheet with descriptive letterpress. Bound in very dark green cloth with stamping and lettering in gold.
Martineau, Harriet. Feats on the Fjord: A Tale . London: J. M. Dent, 1899.
Includes one color and eleven black-and-white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Title page within decorative border. Bound in teal cloth with blind stamp on cover and stamping and lettering on spine in gold. Published originally as one of her book series entitled The Playfellow.
Martineau, Harriet. Feats on the Fiord . London: J. M. Dent; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1914.
Includes eight color illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Illustrated title page. Bound in dark-blue cloth with lettering and stamping in gold and color illustration pasted onto cover. Cover title reads Feats on the Fjords.
Merriman, Henry Seton, and S. G. [Stephen G.] Tallentyre. The Money-Spinner, and Other Character Notes . London: Smith, Elder, 1896.
First British edition. Includes twelve full-page halftone illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Bound in red cloth, with lettering in gold.
Milton, John. Comus. New York: Doubleday, Page; London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Number 511 of a limited first deluxe edition of 550 copies. Binding decorations and endpapers also by Rackham. Signed by the artist.Blue and white endpapers, with blue background and white silhouetted figures. Plates accompanied by guard-sheets with descriptive letterpress. White vellum binding with gold stamping on cover and spine and Heinemann imprint on spine.
Milton, John. Comus. London: W. Heinemann; New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1921.
First British trade edition. Includes twenty-two color plates and numerous in-text drawings by Arthur Rackham. Plates accompanied by tissue guard-sheets with descriptive letterpress. Top edge green. Rebound. See also Arthur Rackham Book Jacket Collection.
Milton, John. Comus. New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company; London: W. Heinemann, 1921.
First American trade edition. Plates accompanied by guard-sheets with descriptive letterpress. Bound in green cloth with gold pictorial stamping and gold lettering on cover and spine; blue-and-white pictorial endpapers. See also Arthur Rackham Book Jacket Collection.
Moore, Clement Clarke. The Night Before Christmas. London: George G. Harrap & Company; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1931.
American trade edition. Includes four color plates and seventeen black-and-white drawings by Arthur Rackham. Illustrated title page. Red and white pictorial endpapers. Originally published under the title A Visit from St. Nicholas. Red paperboard cover; spine rebound in black.
Moore, Clement Clarke. The Night Before Christmas. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1933[?].
Reprint of Harrap 1931 edition. Includes four color plates and seventeen black-and-white drawings by Arthur Rackham. Illustrated title page. Red and white pictorial endpapers. Bound in medium-blue cloth with decorative illustration pasted on front cover. Includes dust jacket with colored illustration.
Moore, Clement Clarke. The Night Before Christmas. New York: Weathervane Books; distributed by Crown Publishers, 1976.
Reprint of 1931 edition. Includes four color plates and seventeen black-and -white drawings by Arthur Rackham. Illustrated title page. Red and white pictorial endpapers. Bound in red imitation leather with pictorial stamping and lettering in gold. Includes dust jacket with colored illustration.
Morley, Christopher. Where the Blue Begins. London: W. Heinemann; New York: Doubleday, Page, 1922.
American trade edition. Includes four color plates and sixteen drawings by Arthur Rackham. Pictorial endpapers in turquoise and white. Clarke Library has two copies: copy 1 lists copyright of 1922 on title page verso and top edge is gilt; copy 2 has no copyright listed and top edge is blue. Note: the Clarke Library's copy of William Shakespeare's The Tempest contained an envelope from Sussex (dated September 27, 1929) and a receipt for the purchase of Where the Blue Begins (along with The Tempest) for £8.6, with the price for The Tempest listed at £10. See also Arthur Rackham Book Jacket Collection.
Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes . New York: Century Company, 1913.
First American edition. Includes twelve full-color plates and sixty-seven black-and-white drawings by Arthur Rackham. Decorative title page of a sampler in color. Includes "Index of First Lines": pp. ix-xx. Rebound in black imitation leather with patterned paper inset; green insets and gold stamping and lettering on spine. Top edge gilt.
First British edition. Includes four full-page color illustrations and eight black-and-white drawings by Arthur Rackham. Bound in light-green buckram on paper with pictorial stamping and lettering in black.
Phillpotts, Eden. A Dish of Apples. London, New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921.
Trade editon. Includes three color plates, seven black-and-white drawings, and head-pieces by Arthur Rackham. Plates accompanied by tissue guard-sheets. Pictorial endpapers in two shades of gray. Bound in rose-grey cloth with pictorial stamping and lettering in brown.
Princess Mary's Gift Book . Illustrated by Arthur Rackham and others. London, New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.
First British edition. Includes one plate and five drawings by Rackham. Plates and portrait mounted. Published to raise funds for Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals: "All profits from sale are given to the 'Queen's Work for Women Fund' which is acting in conjunction with the National Relief Fund."
Queen Mab's Fairy Realm . Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, H. Cole, and others. London: G. Newnes, 1901.
First British trade edition. Includes five black-and-white illustrations by Rackham. Pictorial endpapers in green and cream. Bound in dark-blue cloth with pictorial stamping and lettering in green and gold. All edges gilt. Clarke copy in case (not original to book).
The Queen's Gift Book; In Aid of Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals for Soldiers and Sailors Who Have Lost Their Limbs in the War . With a foreword by John Galsworthy. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham and others. London, New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915.
First edition. Includes one full-page color plate and two black-and-white drawings by Rackham, illustrating "The Soot Fairies" by Beatrice Harraden (pp. 71-80).
Rackham, Arthur. The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book: A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations. London : George G. Harrap, 1933.
Number 456 of a limited first deluxe edition of 460 copies. Signed by Rackham. Includes eight full-page color plates and sixty black-and-white drawings. Each plate is preceded by a page, included in the pagination, with a design on the recto and a caption facing the plate. Illustrated title page and endpapers. Yellow ribbon bookmark. Bound in vellum with stamping and lettering in gold; top edge gilt. Note: This copy contains an original sketch in ink, signed by Rackham, on flyleaf; probably Morgiana filling the jars with oil to save her master Ali Baba and his family from the thieves. "Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh" on title page verso.
Rackham, Arthur. The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book: a Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations . Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1933.
First American trade edition. Includes eight color illustrations and fifty-five in-text black-and-white drawings by Arthur Rackham. Each plate accompanied by leaf, included in the pagination, with descriptive letterpress. Illustrated title page and endpapers. Top edge red. Clarke owns two copies; copy 1 in tattered dust-jacket. "Printed in Great Britain" on title page verso. See also Arthur Rackham Book Jacket Collection.
Rackham, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures . With an introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: W. Heinemann, 1913.
First British trade edition. Includes forty-four color plates, ten drawings, and a sketch of a book plate. Each plate accompanied by tissue guard-sheet with descriptive letterpress. Illustrated title page. Bound in tan cloth with pictorial stamping and lettering in gold.
Rackham, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures . With an introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. New foreword by Elizabeth Congdon Kovanen. New York: Avenel Books; distributed by Crown Publishers, 1979.
Reprint of the 1913 edition published by W. Heinemann, London. Bound in burgundy imitation leather with pictorial stamping and lettering in gold. Illustrated dust jacket in color.
Rackham, Arthur. The Peter Pan Portfolio: From "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens," by J. M. Barrie. New York: Brentano's, 1914.
Number 82 of a limited edition of 300 copies. First American edition. Includes twelve proof-size color plates mounted on white paper. Bound in yellow silk moire with tan cloth back and corners and gold lettering on cover.
Rackham, Arthur. Rackham's Color Illustrations for Wagner's "Ring." With an introduction by James Spero. New York: Dover, 1979.
Captions by James Spero. Illustrated paper cover in full color.
Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Goblin Market. London : G. G. Harrap, 1933.
First British edition. Includes four full-page color plates and nineteen black-and-white drawings by Arthur Rackham. Pictorial endpapers.
Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Goblin Market . London: Harrap, 1971.
Reprint of the 1939 edition. Includes four full-page color plates and numerous small black-and-white drawings. Illustrated title page. Pictorial endpapers in tan and cream. Bound in tan cloth with red decorative stamping and black lettering. Pictorial dust jacket in black, brown, green, and cream.
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. London: Heinemann; New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1908.
First trade edition. Includes forty mounted color plates and thirty black-and-white drawings by Arthur Rackham. Each plate accompanied by tissue guard-sheet with descriptive letterpress. Illustrated title page. Bound in tan cloth with pictorial stamping and lettering in gold.
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Printed in London by Ballantyne & Company. New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 191-?
Trade edition. Clarke owns two copies: copy 1 has fifteen leaves of color plates, numerous black-and-white in-text drawings, and is bound in green cloth with color illustration pasted on cover; copy 2 has one additional color plate and has been rebound, retaining original cover illustration.
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. London: Heinemann; New York: Doubleday, Page, 1926.
First British trade edition. Includes twenty-one color plates and twenty-five black-and-white drawings by Arthur Rackham. Frontispiece with additional color-plate illustration. Illustrated title page. Bound in gray-black cloth with pictorial stamping and lettering in gold; top edge yellow. Note: this volume contained an envelope from Sussex (date September 27, 1929) and a receipt for the purchase of this book (along with Christopher Morley's Where the Blue Begins) for £8.6, with the price for The Tempest listed at £10.
Some British Ballads . New York: Dodd, Mead, 1919.
First American trade edition. Includes sixteen color plates and twenty-four drawings in black and white by Arthur Rackham. Frontispiece and plates mounted on heavy gray paper. Illustrated title page. Pictorial endpapers in blue and tan. Bound in dark-blue cloth with gold lettering and stamping. Clarke Library owns two copies.
Some British Ballads . London: Constable & Company, 1919.
British trade edition. Includes sixteen color plates and twenty-four drawings. Illustrated title page. Pictorial endpapers in blue and tan. Frontispiece and plates mounted on heavy gray paper. Bound in light-blue cloth with gold lettering and stamping.
Starkie, Walter. Raggle-Taggle: Adventures with a Fiddle in Hungary and Roumania. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1933.
First American edition. Title page drawing and frontispiece by Arthur Rackham. Bound in light-green cloth with gold lettering. Includes a bibliography of writings on gypsies and a list of gramophone records of gypsy music.
Steel, Flora Annie Webster. English Fairy Tales. London: Macmillan, 1918.
Number 230 of a limited deluxe American edition of 250 copies. Includes fifteen color plates by Arthur Rackham. Bound in ivory vellum with pictorial stamping and lettering on cover and spine in gold; top edge gilt.
Stephens, James. Irish Fairy Tales. New York: Macmillan Company, 1920.
First American trade edition. Includes sixteen color plates and twenty-one drawings by Arthur Rackham. Plates accompanied by guard-sheets with descriptive letterpress. Illustrated title page. Cover with gold-leaf design.
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. London: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1913.
Illustrated cover and decorative chapter heads.
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. London: J. M. Dent & Company; New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1909.
Includes twelve full-page color illustrations, two black-and-white drawings, and head- and tail-pieces by Arthur Rackham. Illustrated title page. Bound in dark-green cloth with pictorial stamping and lettering in gold; top edge blue.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Springtide of Life: Poems of Childhood. With a preface by Edmund Gosse. London: Heinemann, 1918.
Number 738 of a deluxe limited edition of 765 numbered and signed copies. Includes nine color plates and fifty-two drawings; pictorial endpapers. Bound in white boards with vellum back, gold lettering, and gold pictorial stamping on cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Poems selected by Gosse from the author's published work, supplemented with a "cycle of poems called 'A Dark Month.'" –p. vi.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Springtide of Life: Poems of Childhood. With a preface by Edmund Gosse. London: William Heinemann, 1918.
First British trade edition. Includes eight color illustrations and fifty-two drawings by Arthur Rackham. Pictorial endpapers in green on cream. Bound in green cloth with gold stamping and lettering.
Tate, William James. East Coast Scenery: Rambles Through Towns and Villages; Nutting, Blackberrying, and Mushrooming; Sea Fishing, Wild-Fowl Shooting, etc. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham and others. London: Jarrold, 1899.
First British edition. Includes seven black-and-white drawings definitely byArthur Rackham; may include additional unattributed illustrations.
Wagner, Richard. The Rhinegold; & The Valkyrie [libretto]. Translated by Margaret Armour. London: W. Heinemann; New York: Doubleday, Page, 1910, vol. 1.
First British trade edition. Includes thirty-four mounted color plates and fourteen black-and-white drawings by Arthur Rackham. Plates accompanied by tissue guard-sheets with descriptive letterpress. Pictorial endpapers in orange and cream. Bound in brown buckram with gold stamping and lettering.
Wagner, Richard. The Ring of the Niblung [libretto]. T ranslated by Margaret Armour. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1911[?].
Reprint of 1939 edition. Previously published in two volumes. Includes twenty-six color plates and numerous black-and-white drawings throughout the text by Arthur Rackham. Plates accompanied by tissue guard-sheets with descriptive letterpress. Bound in blue-green cloth with lettering and stamping in gold. Dark teal-green cloth spine.
Wagner, Richard. Siegfried; & the Twilight of the Gods [libretto]. Translated by Margaret Armour. London: Heinemann; New York: Doubleday, Page, 1911, vol. 2.
First British trade edition. Includes thirty mounted color plates and nine black-and-white drawings by Arthur Rackham. Plates accompanied by tissue guard-sheets with descriptive letterpress. Pictorial endpapers in orange and cream. Bound in brown buckram with gold stamping and lettering.
Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation. London: G. Harrap, 1931.
Number 448 of a deluxe limited edition of 775 copies. Signed by Arthur Rackham. Includes twelve full-color plates and twenty-five black-and-white drawings. Pictorial silhouette endpapers in red and white. Bound in white vellum with gold lettering on cover and spine and small illustration on spine in gold. "The publishers acknowledge the courtesy of Messrs. John Lane, the Bodley head . . . in permitting the use of their edition edited by Richard LeGallienne, first published in 1897. The text is from the fifth edition of 1676, the last to be revised by the author, but the spelling is modernized." See also Arthur Rackham Book Jacket Collection.
Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation. London: Harrap, 1975.
Reprint of the 1931 Harrap edition. Includes twelve color illustrations and numerous head- and tail-pieces and other in-text drawings in black and white by Arthur Rackham. Plates accompanied by tissue guard-sheets with descriptive letterpress. Illustrated title page in light green and black. Pictorial endpapers in teal on tan. Bound in teal cloth with lettering and stamping in gold. Text from the fifth edition of 1676, with the spelling modernized.
Prints and Ephemera
Lion, Flora. Arthur Rackham Portrait . 1915[?].
Print of a sketched portrait of Rackham. Original sketch signed "Flora Lion, 1915," " Arthur Rackham." Etching on paper. Unmounted. 49 x 40 cm.
Rackham, Arthur. Arthur Rackham Illustration Prints Collection .
"As I was Going to St. Ives" – "The Gossips" – "Jack and Jill" – "The Little Piper" – "The Man in the Wilderness" "The Gossips" (mounted): 36 x 28 cm.; all others unmounted. Most were printed in St. Nicholas magazine.
Rackham, Arthur. Arthur Rackham Book Jacket Collection .
Collection of book jackets with illustrations by Rackham from books published in the 1920s and 1930s. "Comus" (mounted): 46 x 36 cm.; all others unmounted.
Rackham, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Portrait of a Friend. Undated.
Name of subject unknown. Signed by the artist. Pen and ink on paper. 16 x 13 cm.
Rackham, Arthur. "Bye, Baby Bunting." New York : Century Company, 1913.
Plate of an illustration painted for St. Nicholas magazine by Arthur Rackham. Illustrates "The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose" in St. Nicholas, v. 41, no. 1 (November 1913). Original signed " Rackham, 1912." 19 x 14 cm.
Rackham, Arthur. "Children in Kensington Gardens, London." New York : Century Company, 1914.
Plate of an illustration by Rackhamthat appeared in St. Nicholas magazine. Illustrates " Arthur Rackham: The Wizard at Home, by Eleanor Farjeon in St. Nicholas, v. 41, no. 5 (March 1914). Original signed " Arthur Rackham,1910."
Rackham, Arthur. Christmas Card, 1900.
Handmade Christmas card from 1900. Illustrated with a drawing of a woman seated in front of a large cask. Inscribed "Best wishes for the New Century from Arthur Rackham, Xmas 1900," and signed by artist. Pen and ink on paper. 13 x 10 cm.
Rackham, Arthur. Christmas Card, 1909 .
Handmade Christmas card from 1909. Illustrated with a drawing of a baby. Inscribed "With best wishes from Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rackham & Barbara Mary Rackham, Xmas 1909." Pen and ink on paper. 12 x 9 cm.
Rackham, Arthur. Christmas Card, 1911 .
Handmade Christmas card from 1911. Illustrated with a drawing of a tree with a face. Inscribed "Best wishes from Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Rackham and Barbara Mary, Xmas 1911," and signed by artist. Pen and ink on paper. 16 x 10 cm.
Rackham, Arthur. Collection.
The collection consists of one photographic reproduction (black and white, approximately 20 x 25.5 cm) of Rackham and his cats, Little Sister and Julie, undated (the original dates to 1920); an illustrated playbill for a Peter Pan play presented by Charles Frohman and his York's Theatre Company, at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, undated; and four commercially reproduced posters of his artwork created in the late twentieth century, after 1932. The posters include: a color poster of faeries (measuring about 31 x 23 cm) titled "She Never Had So Sweet a Changeling," from A Midsummer-Night's Dream (originally published in 1908), and its detached brown background sheet (measuring 62 x 47 cm) with the identification information on it; a color poster of people and objects in a house (measuring about 34 x 25.4 cm) titled "When Night Was Come and the Shop Shut Up," from Andersen's Fairy Tales (originally published in 1932) attached to its blue background sheet (measuring about 62 x 47 cm) with the identification information on it; a brown, blue, and white poster (measuring about 51 x 75 cm, mounted on foamboard) of four elves climbing a fence and changing the time on a sign, titled "These trick fairies sometimes change the board on a ball night," from PeterPan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie, 1906; and a laminated color lithographic poster of "Alice in Wonderland" (book originally published in 1907, produced by Portal Pubs., Sausalito, CA [measuring about 74 x 52 cm]).
Rackham, Arthur. Cover from "The Pied Piper of Hamelin."
Created as a cover illustration for 1934 editions of the book The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning, published in the U. S. by J. B. Lippincott and in Great Britain by George G. Harrap. Printer's proof with penciled corrections by Rackham. Unsigned. Watercolor and pen and ink on paper. 27 x 20 cm.
Rackham, Arthur. "The Gossips." New York : The Century Company, 1914.
Plate of an illustration by Rackham that appeared in St. Nicholas magazine. Illustrates "In Shakespeare's Room," by Benjamin F. Leggett in St. Nicholas, v. 41, no. 6 (April 1914). Original signed by the artist. 19 x 14 cm. Rackham, Arthur. " Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark!" New York: The Century Company, 1913.
Plate of an illustration painted for St. Nicholas magazine by Rackham. Illustrates "The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose," in St. Nicholas, v. 41, no. 2 (December 1913). Original signed " Arthur Rackham, 1913." 18 x 14 cm.
Rackham, Arthur. " The Hunters," 1903.
Image of spear-carrying hunters with dogs. Signed by the artist. Watercolor and pen and ink on paper. 24 x 19 cm.
Rackham, Arthur. " Invitation to Viewing," 1905. Etching on paper; 12 x 15 cm.
Invitation from Rackham to a private viewing on March 11, 1905, of an exhibition of his illustrations for Rip Van Winkle. Unsigned.
Rackham, Arthur. " Jack Sprat and His Wife." New York: The Century Company, 1914.
Plate of an illustration painted for St. Nicholas magazine by Rackham. Illustrates "The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose," in St. Nicholas, v. 41, no. 3 (January 1914). Original signed " Arthur Rackham, 1914."
Rackham, Arthur. "A Mad Tea Party."
From Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Modern reproduction. Uncatalogued.
Rackham, Arthur. "The Magic Cup." New York : Century Company, 1914.
Plate of an illustration by Rackham that appeared in St. Nicholas magazine. Illustrates "The Magic Cup," by Arthur Guiterman, in St. Nicholas, v. 41, no. 4 (February 1914). Original signed " Arthur Rackham, '08."
Rackham, Arthur. "Mother Goose." New York: Century Company, 1914.
Plate of an illustration by Rackham that appeared in St. Nicholas magazine. Illustrates "The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose," in St. Nicholas, v. 41, no. 3 (January 1914). Original signed "Arthur Rackham, 1904." 19 x 14 cm.
Rackham, Arthur. "Rain, Rain, Go Away!" New York: Century Company, 1913.
Plate of an illustration painted for St. Nicholas magazine by Rackham. Illustrates "The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose," in St. Nicholas, v. 41, no. 2 (December 1913). Original signed "Arthur Rackham, 1913." 18 x 14 cm.