(RACKHAM ARTHUR) Browne Maggie The Book of Betty Barber

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(RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Browne, Maggie. The Book of Betty Barber. Frontispiece and 5 color plates; 12 black-and-white illustrations by Rackham, colored by Harry Roundtree. 4to, modern burgundy morocco gilt with color pictorial onlay reproduced from one of the illustrations; slight bit of faint dampstaining across first few leaves. London: Duckworth, (1910)

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first edition of one of the scarcer rackham titles. The illustrations first appeared in magazine form in 1901 in Little Folks. There, they were all printed in black and white; for this edition, six of them were colored by Harry Rountree. Latimore & Haskell, page 36.