Arthur Rackham, Margery Williams Bianco

A limited edition of Poor Cecco, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, one of only 105 numbered copies signed by the author, Margery Williams Bianco.

• Margery Williams Bianco (American).
• Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (English).
• New York: George Doran, 1925.
• xiv, 15-175, [1] pages.
• Illustrated by Rackham with 7 very large tipped-in color plates with tissue guards and black-and-white images in text.
• Original vellum-like backed blue boards, in original slipcase with the limitation number of the book inked at head of case spine, top edge gilt, fore-edge uncut, pictorial endpapers.

Margery Williams was born in London but moved to the U.S. when she was nine years old. Her first children's stories were published in London where she lived for a short time, met her husband and had two children, one of whom was a son named Cecco. In 1921 the family moved back to the United States and it was in the U.S. that she wrote her most famous book, The Velveteen Rabbit. Never issued in the UK as a limited edition, Poor Cecco is a notorious rarity in the Rackham world and this is a magnificent copy of the book.