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[RACKHAM, Arthur (1867–1939), illustrator]. –– EVANS, Charles Seddon (1883–1944). The Sleeping Beauty. London and Philadelphia: William Heinemann; J.B. Lippincott Co., [1920].
4to. One tipped–in color plate (laid in),19 full–page silhouetted plates (three double–page), many with some color including frontispiece and title–page, 41 in–text silhouette illustrations by Rackham. (Offsetting from plates to text). Original vellum parchment–backed gilt–stamped boards, top edge gilt, others uncut (covers unevenly toned, evidence of bookplate removal opposite half–title).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 414 of 625 copies of the “Edition de Luxe”, of which 600 were for sale, SIGNED BY RACKHAM on limitation. Contains the extra colored plate not in the trade edition. Latimore & Haskell, p. 51–52.