LOT 4158
2nd April 2025
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LOT 4158
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator) and James STEPHENS. Irish Fairy Tales. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1920. First trade edition, 4to (209 x 162mm.) Half-title, 16 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, black and white illustrations in the text. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, gilt to upper cover (fading to spine gilt). Provenance: ‘Miss. Guggenheim’ (ink inscribed to on the front-free endpaper). – And a further six illustrated volumes (W. Heath Robinson’s ‘Bill the Minder’, 1912, 4to, and John Witt Randall’s ‘The Fairies’ Festival’, illustrated by Francis Gilbert Attwood, 1895, 4to, and Charles Kingsley’s ‘The Water Babies’, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, [1919], 4to, and Alice Talwin Morris’ ‘Old Friends and New Fables’, illustrated by Carton Moorepark, 1916, 4to) (7).
Estimate: £100 – £150
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