Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

Robert Browning and Arthur Rackham The Pied Piper of Hamelin. London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1934 SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, 8vo (236 x 155 mm), signed and dated ("Arthur Rackham | 1934") with pen drawing of two rats, four coloured plates (including frontispiece) and fourteen black-and-white drawings (one double-page), publisher's gilt-lettered limp vellum, top edge gilt, endpapers patterned with rats, deckled edges, housed in publisher's cardboard slipcase, very occasional light spotting, vellum slightly browned at top edge﻿

View 1 of Lot 117: Robert Browning and Arthur Rackham | The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1934, deluxe edition

robert browning and arthur rackham | the pied piper of hamelin, 1934, deluxe edition

Magnificent large plates of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=arthur%20rackham&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rackham</a>'s famous work, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Peter%20Pan&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Peter Pan</a> in Kensington Gardens.<ul><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>J.M. Barrie (Scottish).</li><li>Peter Pan Portfolio from Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie.&nbsp;</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Brentano,&nbsp;1914.</li><li>12 large color plates mounted in mattes with lettered tissue guards.</li><li>Half tan cloth with yellow silk moire.</li></ul> Lavish limited US edition of the striking portfolio version of Rackham's selected color plates from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. The detail and colors are breathtaking, and the large size of the plates does justice to Rackham's mastery. The plates are the sizes of the original art executed by Rackham and, in some cases, larger. Issued in a format meant for owners to be able to frame the plates for display, it is rare to find it complete.

Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens Portfolio

Deluxe American large-paper edition of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Fairy%20Tales%20of%20the%20Brothers%20Grimm&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm</a>, limited to only 50 copies <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by the illustrator, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Arthur%20Rackham&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arthur Rackham</a>.<ul><li>Wilhelm Grimm (German).</li><li>Jacob Grimm (German).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Doubleday Page,&nbsp;1909.</li><li>325, [1] pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Featuring 40 tipped-in color plates by Rackham with guards plus a profusion of full page and smaller black and whites.</li><li>Original full limp suede binding with yapp edges, gilt-ornamented spine, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, Moire endpapers, printed on fine paper.</li></ul> This is the only American limited edition of this title, never issued as a typical American limited edition.

Fairy Tales Of The Brothers Grimm | Signed by the Illustrator

A limited edition of Poor Cecco, illustrated by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Arthur%20Rackham&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arthur Rackham</a>, one of only 105 numbered copies signed by the author, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Margery%20Williams%20Bianco&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Margery Williams Bianco</a>.<ul><li>Margery Williams Bianco (American).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;George Doran,&nbsp;1925.</li><li>xiv, 15-175, [1] pages.</li><li>Illustrated by Rackham with 7 very large tipped-in color plates with tissue guards and black-and-white images in text.</li><li>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.</li></ul> 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.

Poor Cecco (signed)

A first edition, Deluxe Issue copy of A Christmas Carol.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.</li><li>London:&nbsp;William Heinemann,&nbsp;1915.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Includes 12 full-page mounted illustrations in color and 20 drawings in black and white by Arthur Rackham.</li><li>One of 525 copies signed by Rackham.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original full gilt-decorated vellum, housed in custom vellum backed box with chemise.</li></ul>

A Christmas Carol

An Arthur Rackham <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> and illustrated limited edition of Peer Gynt by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=henrick%20ibsen&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henrik Ibsen</a>.<ul><li>Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>London: Harrap, (1936).&nbsp;</li><li>256 pages.</li><li>Illustrated by Rackham with 12 color plates, plus numerous fanciful black-and-white images.</li><li>Signed by Rackham on the limitation page.</li><li>Bound in the original full gilt-stamped vellum, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, pictorial endpapers.</li></ul> Signed limited edition, one of only 460 copies signed by Rackham, of this popular play based on a Norwegian fairy tale — accompanied by the original drawing that appears on page 78 of the text. Rackham had a special talent for creating fantastical creatures like fairies and goblins, making Peer Gynt an excellent choice for his interpretations. Laid into this copy is a gorgeous original pen-and-ink drawing featuring a bevy of weird and wonderful goblins in motion. The drawing is actually larger than the printed version. Already a scarce Rackham deluxe edition, it is especially desirable with the drawing.

Peer Gynt

Watercolor illustration by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Arthur+Rackham&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arthur Rackham</a> from <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=richard+Wagner&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wagner</a>'s musical drama Siegfried.<ul><li>Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>After Richard Wagner (German).</li><li>Dated 1911.</li><li>Signed by Rackham.</li><li>This work is presented matted and framed.</li></ul> The image shows the Wanderer and the Dwarf; the former has challenged the dwarf to answer a second riddle in order to save his life, a scene not coincidentally reminiscent of Gollum and Bilbo in Tolkien's book The Hobbit. Richly colored and with much detail.

Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods Artwork

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