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(RACKHAM, ARTHUR): BROTHERS GRIMM:
Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
A New Translation
by MRS. EDGAR LUCAS.
With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
London, Archibald Constable & Co., 1900 Early edition
Hardback, 8 x 6 inches.
In cream cloth with colour printed illustrations to boards and spine.
Top page edges gilt.
Pictorial endpapers.
In good condition.
Some handling marks, boards lightly tanned; corners slightly bumped with rubbing and small nicks to ends of spine.
Minor neat glue repair to partial crack on rear spine edge.
Some tanning to illustrated endpapers, some foxing spots to prelims.
Mild foxing and to pages throughout with some handling marks, page edges rough/uncut.
Small tear head of spine.
Tear inner edge (2 inch) on first contents page, & also small tear lower insde corner of last list of illustrations page.
Binding tight and sound.
Else a good clean and tight copy.
Scarce.
464pp.
Illustrated with a colour frontis plate and decorative title page, and many B&W illustrations (full-page and in-text) by Arthur Rackham.
94802
Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
A New Translation
by MRS. EDGAR LUCAS.
With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
London, Archibald Constable & Co., 1900 Early edition
Hardback, 8 x 6 inches.
In cream cloth with colour printed illustrations to boards and spine.
Top page edges gilt.
Pictorial endpapers.
In good condition.
Some handling marks, boards lightly tanned; corners slightly bumped with rubbing and small nicks to ends of spine.
Minor neat glue repair to partial crack on rear spine edge.
Some tanning to illustrated endpapers, some foxing spots to prelims.
Mild foxing and to pages throughout with some handling marks, page edges rough/uncut.
Small tear head of spine.
Tear inner edge (2 inch) on first contents page, & also small tear lower insde corner of last list of illustrations page.
Binding tight and sound.
Else a good clean and tight copy.
Scarce.
464pp.
Illustrated with a colour frontis plate and decorative title page, and many B&W illustrations (full-page and in-text) by Arthur Rackham.
94802
