PRESENTATION COPY WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING
Some British Ballads - With Original Drawing
Constable & Co. Ltd., 1919.
First edition. 4to. Blue cloth with gilt titles and vignettes. Top edge blue. Original sketch on the half title, showing two impish characters reading from a large printed sheet and inscribed to Rackham's brother and sister in law "To Robert + Awdry / with best wishes / from / Edyth / + / Arthur Rackham / Christmas 1919". Pictorial endpapers show a knight on his charger drawn in silhouette. The sixteen colour plates are mounted under plain tissue guards and there are numerous black and white drawings in the text. A very good copy, cloth bright with a short split to the top of the spine.
A charming collection of old ballads and stories from around Britain.
PROVENANCE: Christmas gift to Robert and Awdry Starkie from Arthur Rackham and his wife. Arthur Rackham married Edyth Starkie in 1903 and each Christmas Arthur sent his latest book to her family.
Stock ID: 32084
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