RACKHAM’S SCARCE A DISH OF APPLES, ONE OF 500 SIGNED COPIES
(RACKHAM, Arthur) PHILLPOTTS, Eden. A Dish of Apples. London and New York: Hodder & Stoughton, (1921). Quarto, publisher's ivory linen, gilt cover illustration, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut.
Deluxe signed limited first edition, number 250 of only 500 copies signed by Rackham and the author Eden Phillpotts, beautifully illustrated with three mounted color plates and 23 black-and-white line cuts.
"Arthur Rackham's fanciful imagination gave his illustrations instant recognition, and his dedication to illustration kept him in the public eye for thirty years" (Hodnett, 233). This wonderful set of images illustrates Phillpotts' 12 charming poems, each on a different variety of apple. Latimore & Haskell, 54. Riall, 144. Bookplate.
A fine copy.