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[Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. Richard Wagner. The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie. London and New York, 1910.... (Total: 2 )
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[Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. Richard Wagner. The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie. London and New York, 1910.4to. 34 full-page mounted color plates by Rackham, including frontispiece. Rebound in contemporary half vellum and brown boards, gilt-lettered leather spine labels, top edge gilt.
LIMITED EDITION, number 1,068 of 1,150 copies SIGNED BY RACKHAM.
Condition: Spine labels a little rubbed and worn; some light edgewear; edges trimmed slightly at the time of rebinding but some deckle edges preserved; internally fine.
References: Latimore & Haskell, p. 37.
[With:]
[Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. Richard Wagner. Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods. London and New York, 1911.
4to. 30 full-page mounted color plates by Rackham, including frontispiece. Original pictorial vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, number 120 of 1,150 copies SIGNED BY RACKHAM.
Condition: A little soiling and wear to vellum; lacking silk ties; hinges cracked; endpapers a little discolored and spotted. Minor light spotting to blank prelims; one plate with mount and tissue guard detached (Brünnhilde on the pyre, facing p. 180); some light toning from plate mounts to adjacent text; a little toning to some uncut deckle edges along fore-margin.
References: Latimore & Haskell, pp. 37-38.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
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