ONE OF RACKHAM'S MOST SOUGHT-AFTER TITLES: HIS ILLUSTRATED MOTHER GOOSE, SIGNED BY HIM
RACKHAM, Arthur. Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes. London: William Heinemann, (1913). Quarto, original pictorial white cloth, top edge gilt, uncut.
Signed limited edition, number 839 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. Riall, 115.
Plates and text fine, just a bit of faint foxing to cloth, mainly on spine. A beautiful copy, rarely seen in such nice condition.