Washington Irving / Arthur Rackham (ill) - Rip van Winkle - 1910
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Rip van Winkle, an illustrated edition by Washington Irving with drawings by Arthur Rackham, published by William Heinemann (London, 1910) in English, hardback with green cloth and gilt decoration, containing fifty color plates mounted with tissue guards and a coloured frontispiece, in very good condition.
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"Rip van Winkle" by Washington Irving and illustrated by Arthur Rackham
William Heinemann, London - 1910 Rackham edition - 28cmx20cm - viii, 57, [1 blank], [2]pp. Fifty color plates mounted with lettered tissue guards, and colored frontispiece. Publishers green cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine, plain green endpapers - condition: very good, original green gilt decorated boards, some rubbing to edges, page foxing, all plates present. An very good copy of this seminal Rackham title.
The illustrations, for a story of not more than five thousand words, enables the story to be told twice, once through Irving's words, and once again, image by image, through Rackham's pictures. In his illustrations, Rackham pays homage not only to Dürer, Cruikshank and Dutch seventeenth-century painting, but to contemporary artists, too." (Hamilton). ". But the first work that greatly advanced his fame in the years immediately following his marriage was his edition of Rip Van Winkle. This lovely book decisively established Rackham as the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period
"Rip van Winkle" by Washington Irving and illustrated by Arthur Rackham
William Heinemann, London - 1910 Rackham edition - 28cmx20cm - viii, 57, [1 blank], [2]pp. Fifty color plates mounted with lettered tissue guards, and colored frontispiece. Publishers green cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine, plain green endpapers - condition: very good, original green gilt decorated boards, some rubbing to edges, page foxing, all plates present. An very good copy of this seminal Rackham title.
The illustrations, for a story of not more than five thousand words, enables the story to be told twice, once through Irving's words, and once again, image by image, through Rackham's pictures. In his illustrations, Rackham pays homage not only to Dürer, Cruikshank and Dutch seventeenth-century painting, but to contemporary artists, too." (Hamilton). ". But the first work that greatly advanced his fame in the years immediately following his marriage was his edition of Rip Van Winkle. This lovely book decisively established Rackham as the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period
Details
Number of Books
1
Subject
Children's books, Illustrated, Literature
Book Title
Rip van Winkle
Author/ Illustrator
Washington Irving / Arthur Rackham (ill)
Condition
Very good
Publication year oldest item
1910
Edition
Illustrated Edition
Language
English
Original language
Yes
Publisher
William Heinemann
Binding/ Material
Hardback
Extras
Tipped in plates
Number of pages
0
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