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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Robert Browning. London, George G. Harrap, 1934.
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

45 pp. 4 color plates by Rackham. (8vo) 9¼x6, original limp vellum lettered in gilt, slipcase. No. 131 of 400 copies. First Edition.

Signed by Rackham at limitation statement. Latimore & Haskell p. 71.

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Puck of Pook’s Hill
Rudyard Kipling. New York, Doubleday/Page, 1906.

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 4 color plates. (8vo) original green cloth gilt-lettered and pictorially stamped in black, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. First Illustrated Edition.

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The Land of Enchantment
Frontispiece and illustrations (many full-page) by Arthur Rackham

Ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly darkened, with small nick to wards head and slightly frayed at end, 1907

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The Dolly Dialogues
Anthony Hope. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London, Westminster Gazette, 1894.

111 pp. Cover illustrations and 4 full page illustrations by Arthur Rackham. (8vo) 7¼x5½, original illustrated wrappers. First Edition, First Issue.

The second book to contain illustrations by Arthur Rackham. First issue, with short running headline of ‘Dolly’ versus ‘The Dolly Dialogues’ in later issues. Latimore & Haskell, p. 1.

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Heading: (Rackham, Arthur)
Author: Swift, Jonathan
Title: Gulliver’s Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World
Place: London
Publisher: J.M. Dent
Date: 1909

xv, 291 pp. 12 color plates by Arthur Rackham. 9x6¼, original red cloth pictorially stamped in gilt. Second Rackham Illustrated Edition, First Trade Issue.
The second edition with illustrations by Rackham, the first in 1900 had only a single color plate. Latimore & Haskell p. 32.

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The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie
Richard Wagner. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London / New York, Heinemann / Doubleday Page, 1910.

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including 34 color plates tipped onto brown paper; captioned guards. (4to) 11¼x8½, original vellum pictorially gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. First Rackham Edition. Limited Edition, no. 253 of 1150 copies, signed by the artist.

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Arthur Rackham, Illustrator
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare. Heinemann/Doubleday, 1908.

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including 40 tipped-in color plates. 9¾x7, three-quarter green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. First Rackham Trade Edition.
Latimore & Haskell, p. 32.

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Cinderella
C.S. Evans. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London/Philadelphia, Heinemann/Lippincott, 1919.

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with silhouette drawings, including 3 double-page in colors and mounted color frontispiece. 10x7¼, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. First Rackham Trade Edition.

B-A Note: Like a parent, I try not to play favorites with my books. But secretly I think this is my favorite Rackham cover art to date.

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The Wind in the Willows
Author: Grahame, Kenneth Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London, Methuen & Co. 1951

Introduction by A.A. Milne. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including 12 tipped-in color plates on captioned white paper. (4to) 11¾x9, original full white sheep leather, spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, other edges uncut; original slipcase with printed paper label. “100th Edition.” Limited Edition, no. 374 of 500 copies.

Quite scarce in the original binding which is prone to wear and soiling. The final Rackham limited edition, posthumously published.

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The Ingoldsby Legends
Or, Mirth & Marvels.
Ingoldsby, Thomas [pseud of Richard Barham]. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London, J.M. Dent, 1898.

B-A Note: Finally, the book from which came this amazing illustration! Although the dates don’t quite match up - hmmm.

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The Sleeping Beauty
Charles Seddon Evans. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 1920.

First edition, tipped-in colour plate and silhouette illustrations by Rackham, original cloth-backed pictorial boards

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The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie
Richard Wagner. Arthur Rackham, Illustrator. William Heinemann, 1910.

Number 110 or 1150 deluxe copies, signed by the illustrator. 34 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham, publisher’s pictorial vellum gilt, t.e.g., ties, slipcase, 4to.

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 1928.

number 189 of 375 copies signed by the artist, mounted colour frontispiece, 7 colour plates, colour pictorial pastedowns and illustrations by Arthur Rackham, original vellum, gilt, spine very slightly darkened and very slight rubbing to fore-edges of covers, quarter morocco slip-case, gilt, 4to, 1928.

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POE, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1935. Quarto, original full vellum gilt.

Signed limited first edition, number 322 of 460 copies signed by illustrator Arthur Rackham. With twelve mounted color plates, seventeen black and white plates, numerous in-text drawings, and wonderfully frightening decorated endpapers. Included among the 25 Poe tales are such classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter. Without original slipcase. A fine copy, rare in this condition.

Illustration from The Pit and the Pendulum:

B-A Note: Many thanks to Mlle. Ghoul for sending me the link to this. It’s gorgeous!

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Sketchbook for A Midsummer Night’s Dream Arthur Rackham ca.1908

“Born in 1867, Arthur Rackham entered the Lambeth School of Art in 1884. From 1885 to 1892 he worked as a clerk in an insurance office. In 1893 he began what would be his life’s work, illustrating the Ingoldsby Legends, and Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare. He became famous with Grimm’s Fairy Tales in 1900, and Rip Van Winkle in 1905, and through an exhibition held at the Leicester Galleries in 1905. The Rackham collection at Columbia University contains 413 drawings, watercolors, and oil paintings, as well as 30 sketch books, including this one of sketches for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In addition, the collection contains some 400 printed books and ephemera.”

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Berol, 1967
Via the online exhibition “Jewels In Her Crown: Treasures of the Columbia University Libraries Special Collections”.