ONE OF RACKHAM'S MOST SOUGHT-AFTER TITLES: HIS ILLUSTRATED MOTHER GOOSE, SIGNED BY HIM, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND AT THE CHELSEA BINDERY
RACKHAM, Arthur. Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes. London: William Heinemann, (1913). Quarto, later full green morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut.
Signed limited edition, number 813 of 1130 copies signed by Rackham, with 13 splendid color plates mounted on brown stock and 85 in-text line cuts, beautifully bound in full green morocco-gilt at the Chelsea Bindery.
"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. Riall, 115.
Plates bright and fine, scattered foxing to interior, binding fine. A beautiful copy.