Detail showing one of four inset miniatures on a special binding of the 1909, Arthur Rackham illustrated edition of The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm sold for £2400 by Gorringe’s.
Published by the Riccardi Press and featuring John Tenniel’s original illustrations, that edition ran to 1000 copies, but an extra dozen copies were specially printed on vellum and it was one of those that reached £5500 in the Lewes sale.
The handsome binding pictured here, however, was made for one of the 750 limited edition copies of The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm that was published by Constable in 1909, one illustrated with tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham.
The special binding of the 1909, Arthur Rackham illustrated edition of The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm sold for £2400 by Gorringe’s.
As issued, those copies came in vellum gilt bindings, but this copy boasts an embossed and varicoloured brown morocco binding that is mounted, front and back, with four original gouache and pencil on vellum miniatures by Rackham.
It sold for £2400.
