A very early entry in the Rackham bibliography

Washington Irving; Arthur Rackham, et al [illus.]

The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [Limited Edition]

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. Very Good. Item #14498

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. "Westminster Edition" (i.e. First American Edition with Rackham's illustrations), Limited to 175 sets of which this is no. 99. Two volumes; large octavos; publisher's full gilt-tooled calf, dark brown gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, top edges gilt, decorative textured endpapers, housed in custom cloth slipcase; xix,[1],294; vi,[2],315pp.; tissue-guarded frontispieces at head of each volume, thirty (30) leaves of plates, including four by Arthur Rackham, text printed within decorative border printed in green and gilt. Light scuffing to extremities, some very brief dark staining (ink?) to Vol. I spine and Vol. II upper cover, tissue guards toned, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound set.

[LATIMORE & HASKELL, pp. 4-5, erroneously attributing just three illustrations to Rackham].

Price: $650.00