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Mother Goose.
A beautifully illustrated edition of Mother Goose Old Nursery Rhymes, including many well-known ones such as, Hickory-Dickory-Dock.
First edition, deluxe issue, number 569 of 1130 copies signed and numbered by the artist; 4to (295 x 140 mm), 13 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, illustrations in text, a few text-leaves unopened, laid-in advertisement for an exhibition of Rackham's original watercolours for the work, dated 1913, browning to half-title (with resultant showing to verso) and final page of Index at rear, small area of slight browning to p. 29, mild spotting to a few tissue-guards, more evident to that of the frontispiece with slight offsetting to title, the occasional, minor, light spot, otherwise very good; publisher's white cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, spine browned, covers slightly marked, light spotting to endpapers, a couple of edges roughly cut but again, otherwise very good.
First edition, deluxe issue, number 569 of 1130 copies signed and numbered by the artist; 4to (295 x 140 mm), 13 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, illustrations in text, a few text-leaves unopened, laid-in advertisement for an exhibition of Rackham's original watercolours for the work, dated 1913, browning to half-title (with resultant showing to verso) and final page of Index at rear, small area of slight browning to p. 29, mild spotting to a few tissue-guards, more evident to that of the frontispiece with slight offsetting to title, the occasional, minor, light spot, otherwise very good; publisher's white cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, spine browned, covers slightly marked, light spotting to endpapers, a couple of edges roughly cut but again, otherwise very good.
$1,708.59
Mother Goose.—
$1,708.59
Description
A beautifully illustrated edition of Mother Goose Old Nursery Rhymes, including many well-known ones such as, Hickory-Dickory-Dock.
First edition, deluxe issue, number 569 of 1130 copies signed and numbered by the artist; 4to (295 x 140 mm), 13 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, illustrations in text, a few text-leaves unopened, laid-in advertisement for an exhibition of Rackham's original watercolours for the work, dated 1913, browning to half-title (with resultant showing to verso) and final page of Index at rear, small area of slight browning to p. 29, mild spotting to a few tissue-guards, more evident to that of the frontispiece with slight offsetting to title, the occasional, minor, light spot, otherwise very good; publisher's white cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, spine browned, covers slightly marked, light spotting to endpapers, a couple of edges roughly cut but again, otherwise very good.
First edition, deluxe issue, number 569 of 1130 copies signed and numbered by the artist; 4to (295 x 140 mm), 13 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, illustrations in text, a few text-leaves unopened, laid-in advertisement for an exhibition of Rackham's original watercolours for the work, dated 1913, browning to half-title (with resultant showing to verso) and final page of Index at rear, small area of slight browning to p. 29, mild spotting to a few tissue-guards, more evident to that of the frontispiece with slight offsetting to title, the occasional, minor, light spot, otherwise very good; publisher's white cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, spine browned, covers slightly marked, light spotting to endpapers, a couple of edges roughly cut but again, otherwise very good.
