Aubrey Beardsley (ill) - The Yellow Book, an illustrated quarterly - Vol I - 1894
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Arthur Rackham (ill) - Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures - 1913
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Arthur Rackham (ill) - Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures - 1913
"Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures" illustrated by Arthur Rackham
William Heinemann, London - 1913 first UK edition - Frontispiece and forty-three other tipped in illustrations by Arthur Rackham - condition: about fine copy, in original publisher's binding, name to ffep, clean internally, with all plates present
Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures brings together a number of drawings unrelated in theme. Most of them, it is true, are drawings of the supernatural, of goblins, elves and fairies, and many are based on actual fairy tales; but there are also delightful straightforward drawings of children at the seaside or in the Broad Walk, Kensington Gardens; there is also the well-known 'Cupid's Alley' [the original of which is in the Tate Gallery], which illustrates verses by Austin Dobson, and there are subject pictures and landscapes of wide variety. It was important that such a book should be drawn together by an introductory essay, and natural for Rackham to invite [J.M.] Barrie to write it. The answer he received was cordial but disappointing: '24 June 1913. Dear Rackham, I wish I could, but I have promised to write two introductions this autumn, and had better not undertake more. Added to which I would be very bad at it as I have no skill in criticism. I am very glad to hear of the book and look forward to it. You have no greater admirer than myself, and few there are more warmly indebted to you
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