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

£950 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Goblin Market. 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.

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