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 - condition: 16 tipped-in full colour lithograph plates, each separately printed and tipped-in onto mounts. Pictorial endpapers, name to ffep, The contents on heavy paper. Wear and rubbing and discolouring to boards and spine lining., , some plate creasings, Lancaster grammar school prize binding in gilt printed on rear.

"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).