Arthur Rackham (ill) - Some British Ballads - 1919

"Some British Ballads", af Arthur Rackham (illustrator) - Constable, London - 1919, første UK-udgave - 170 sider, - 25cm x 20cm - 16 farveplader og 24 sort/hvide illustrationer af Rackham - tilstand: 16 indlimede fuldfarve litografiske plader, hver trykt separat og indlimet på monteringer. Illustrative endpapirer, navn på ffep, Indholdet på tungt papir. Slitage og gnidning og misfarvning på bindings- og rygbeklædningen., , nogle pladekrumninger, Lancaster grammar school præmieindbinding i guld trykt bagpå.

"Several of the Ballads in this book are based on the great work of Francis James Child?" (Note) "Few of Mr Rackham's work have been more consistently impressed with charm and beauty than his illustrations in colour to Some British Ballads. In them he pictures a succession of fascinating heroines habited in quaint and picturesque costumes, amid surroundings which, though belonging to no definite place or period, are always appropriate and congruous. His heroes are hardly less charming than his heroines, and the scenes in which they are represented constitute a series of fascinating and delightful pictures . one must feel grateful to Mr Rackham for giving us the prettiest picture book of the season" (The Connoisseur, Vol. LVI, 1920).