C h i l d r e n ’ s L i t e r a t u r e 42 One Of Rackham’s Most Sought-After Titles: His Illustrated Mother Goose, Signed By Him 47. RACKHAM, Arthur. Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes. London, 1913. Quarto, original pictorial white cloth. $5000. Signed limited edition, one of 1130 copies signed by Rackham, with 13 splendid color plates mounted on brown stock and 85 in-text line cuts. A beautiful copy. “I think most of the best known are here. I have chosen those I knew and liked best in my own nursery days” (Rackham). Includes “Jack Sprat,” “Little Miss Muffett,” “Jack and Jill,” “Little Bo Peep,” “The House that Jack Built” and others. Latimore & Haskell, 40-41. Plates and text fine, just a bit of faint foxing to cloth, mainly on spine. A beautiful copy, rarely seen in such nice condition. Signed Limited Edition Of Rackham’s The Night Before Christmas 48. MOORE, Clement C. The Night Before Christmas. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London, 1931. Octavo, original limp vellum, slipcase, custom clamshell box. $4600. Signed limited first edition, one of only 275 copies printed for England (out of a total edition of 550 copies), with four color plates and 17 in-text line cuts, signed by Arthur Rackham, in publisher’s vellum. “One of the world’s most widely read poems… ‘’Twas the Night Before Christmas’ recast St. Nicholas as a cheerful, rosy-cheeked elf and established Christmas as a time for giving gifts to children” (Carnegie Mellon University). For this edition of the Yuletide classic, Rackham created four full-color illustrations, 17 drawings in black and white, and red and white pictorial endpapers. Title page printed in red and black. Without plain wrapper. Latimore & Haskell, 66. A fine copy in a slipcase with expert repairs.
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