Goblin Market.

by RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); ROSSETTI, Christina.

$1,307 · Offered by Biblio

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London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd,, 1933. Come buy, come buy Signed limited edition, one of 410 numbered copies signed by the artist, this copy out of series. Rackham's goblins have been noted to "have a certain comic, nursery quaintness, a darker version of Beatrix Potter" (Byatt). Rackham's nephew, the writer Walter Starkie, "confessed to thinking Rackham was a goblin 'in his shabby blue suit and carpet slippers, hopping about the studio with a palette on one arm, waving a paintbrush in his hand'" (ODNB). Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market was first published in 1862. Provenance: Thomas Balston, sale, Christie's, 24 July 1968, lot 186 - purchased by Stephen C. Massey. Octavo. Colour frontispiece, 3 colour plates, illustrations in the text. Half-title and title page printed in green and black. Original limp vellum, front cover lettered in gilt, green illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Rubbed, short closed tear to lower margin of plate facing p. 14, one or two scattered spots, a very good copy. Latimore & Haskell, p. 69; Riall, p. 179. A. S. Byatt, "The Wild Ones", The Guardian, 24 November 2007.

• Year: 1933
• Binding: hardcover

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