Description
Limited edition of Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes, signed by the illustrator, Arthur Rackham.
Large octavo, xi, [1], 159pp, [1]. Full cream cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. Solid text block, sunned spine, light wear to corners. Foxing to endpapers. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to front endpaper. Complete with 13 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Each mounted on green cardstock and protected with captioned tissue cover. Further decorated with multiple black-and-white illustrations throughout the text. (Latimore & Haskell 40)
From a limited edition of 1130 copies, with 1100 for sale throughout Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies. This copy is numbered 829.
Signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page.
