Arthur Rackham (ill) - Mother Goose - The Old Nursery Rhymes - 1913

"Mother Goose - The Old Nursery Rhymes" illustrated by Arthur Rackham

William Heinemann, London - 1913 first Rackham edition - condition: very good, in original grey illustrated binding with light rubbing to edges, name to ffep, page foxing, minor plate wrinkling, complete with contains 13 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations by Rackham. A very nice copy.

Rare Rackham title, especially in first edition

"So far as titles go (but not so far as artwork goes) we move into a different key with Mother Goose, a book constructed in 1913 from a series of plates and line drawings which had appeared and would reappear in St Nicholas between 1912 and 1914. The poems were chosen by Rackham, presumably in terms of the themes and subjects he wished to illustrate: this would account for the consistently good quality of the many plates and of the numerous line drawings." (Gettings 131).