?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED INK DRAWING (RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. 51 color plates by Rackham comprising frontispiece and 50 tipped-in illustrations with lettered tissue guards. 4to, publisher's gilt-pictorial vellum, bowed, lacking ties but laid into binding at rear, tips and spine rubbed, some light spotting; endpapers and blanks foxed, owner's penciled notes on front pastedown; plate captioned "Rip's Son, `a precise counterpart...'" is torn at top left with a hard diagonal crease; slipcase present but worn. London: Heinemann, 1905
first limited edition. Copy 26 of 250 volumes numbered signed by rackham. this copy with an additional original ink drawing representing rip van winkle as a little leafy tree figure, Signed in full below drawing and dated 17 July 1918.
