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Auction archive: Lot number 382

AESOP & Arthur RACKHAM (1867-1939, illustrator). Fables. A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. London: William Heinemann, 1912. 4°. Half title, 13 mounted coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, illustrations, s...

Auction 29.11.2006
29 Nov 2006
Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$764 - US$1,146
Price realised:
£720
ca. US$1,376
Auction archive: Lot number 382

AESOP & Arthur RACKHAM (1867-1939, illustrator). Fables. A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. London: William Heinemann, 1912. 4°. Half title, 13 mounted coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, illustrations, s...

Auction 29.11.2006
29 Nov 2006
Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$764 - US$1,146
Price realised:
£720
ca. US$1,376
Beschreibung:

AESOP & Arthur RACKHAM (1867-1939, illustrator). Fables. A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. London: William Heinemann, 1912. 4°. Half title, 13 mounted coloured plates by Arthur Rackham illustrations, some full-page. Original decorated cloth gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine darkened, endpapers spotted). Provenance : George Kitchin (bookplate). NUMBER 430 OF 1,450 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Latimore & Haskell p.38 (erroneously calling for 12 coloured plates).

Auction archive: Lot number 382
Auction:
Datum:
29 Nov 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
29 November 2006, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

AESOP & Arthur RACKHAM (1867-1939, illustrator). Fables. A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. London: William Heinemann, 1912. 4°. Half title, 13 mounted coloured plates by Arthur Rackham illustrations, some full-page. Original decorated cloth gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine darkened, endpapers spotted). Provenance : George Kitchin (bookplate). NUMBER 430 OF 1,450 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Latimore & Haskell p.38 (erroneously calling for 12 coloured plates).

Auction archive: Lot number 382
Auction:
Datum:
29 Nov 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
29 November 2006, London, South Kensington
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