Arthur Rackham (ill) - Some British Ballads - 1919

"Some British Ballads", by Arthur Rackham (illustrator) - Constable, London - 1919, first UK edition - 170p, - 25cmx20cm - 16 colored plates and 24 b/w illustrations by Rackham - 16 tipped-in full colour lithograph plates, each separately printed and tipped-in onto mounts. Pictorial endpapers. The contents on heavy paper. Some wear and rubbing and discolouring to boards., bowing and morphing of to spine lining, some dampstaining. Publishers original embossed and gilt stamped blue cloth. Name on title page.

"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).