The Tempest/ 1926 / Arthur Rackham
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THE TEMPEST captures William Shakespeare’s divine comedy through Golden Age Illustrator Arthur Rackham and his signature "pen and wash" style, which had evolved into something softer and more atmospheric by the mid-1920s. His work began to move away from the heavy, gnarled "Rackham-rack" trees of his earlier Grimm's Fairy Tales era toward a more fluid, oceanic palette of blues, greens, and muted grays.
A very good first trade edition in a near fine and scarce dust jacket. Published by Wm. Heinemann Ltd., London and New York in 1926. Twenty tipped-in color plates protected with captioned paper guards and twenty-five drawings in black and white. Original black cloth over boards, front cover and spine with lettering and vignette in gilt. Boards clean and text block straight and square. Blank end pages with penciled in research notes, first flyleaf with name and date of original owner. Handwritten birthday note laid in. Foxing to text edges and to preliminaries and moderate foxing to 2 story pages (see photo). Otherwise there are no loose, torn or missing pages and binding is firm. Color tipped-in illustrations clean with no corner bends to any of the illustrations. Story is in stage-play format.
10" x 7 1/2". There are 185 pages as called for with the last page being the "Tempest Epilogue, Spoken by Prospero. Prospero is a fictional character, "the right Duke of Milan" and the protagonist in Shakespear's play. Free shipping and insurance via USPS priority mail.
A very good first trade edition in a near fine and scarce dust jacket. Published by Wm. Heinemann Ltd., London and New York in 1926. Twenty tipped-in color plates protected with captioned paper guards and twenty-five drawings in black and white. Original black cloth over boards, front cover and spine with lettering and vignette in gilt. Boards clean and text block straight and square. Blank end pages with penciled in research notes, first flyleaf with name and date of original owner. Handwritten birthday note laid in. Foxing to text edges and to preliminaries and moderate foxing to 2 story pages (see photo). Otherwise there are no loose, torn or missing pages and binding is firm. Color tipped-in illustrations clean with no corner bends to any of the illustrations. Story is in stage-play format.
10" x 7 1/2". There are 185 pages as called for with the last page being the "Tempest Epilogue, Spoken by Prospero. Prospero is a fictional character, "the right Duke of Milan" and the protagonist in Shakespear's play. Free shipping and insurance via USPS priority mail.
Item id: RL-1030Item type: Antique
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