Twenty-two original drawings

Collection Data

Names
Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939 (Artist)
Bayntun, George, 1873-1940 (Binder)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1906 - 1921 (Approximate)
Place: London?
Publisher: not identified
Library locations
Spencer Collection
Shelf locator: Spencer Coll. Eng. 1921
Topics
Drawing, British
Drawings, original -- Rackham
Bindings, 20th cent., British -- Bayntun
Genres
Drawings
pages (components)
Notes
Content: Arthur Rackham drawings [1906-1921]
Content: Each drawing except one (Cinderella) has a separate signed caption in the artist's autograph.
Content: The Spencer Collection holds copies of thirteen of the seventeen London editions for which these illustrations were made: Barrie, Sir J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, 1906.--Barham, R. H. The Ingoldsby legends. Dent, 1907.--Grimm, J. L. K. The fairy tales. Constable, 1909.--Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's travels. Dent, 1909.--Aesop. English. 1912. Aesop's fables. Heinemann, 1912.--Mother Goose. Mother Goose. Heinemann, 1913.--The Allies' fairy book. Heinemann [1916]--Grimm, J. L. K. Little brother & little sister. Constable [1917]--Cinderella. Cinderella; retold by C. S. Evans. Heinemann [1919]--The sleeping beauty. The sleeping beauty; told by C. S. Evans. Heinemann [1920]--Stephens, James. Irish fairy tales. Macmillan, 1920.--Milton, John. Poems, Minor. Comus. 1921. Comus. Heinemann [1921]--Phillpotts, Eden. A dish of apples. Hodder & Stoughton [1921].
Content: Most of the editions are represented by one original drawing, the Allies' fairy book by four, Cinderella and the Irish fairy tales each by two. Drawings are also present for the Midsummer-night's dream (1908), Lamb's Tales (1909), Dickens' Christmas carol (1915) and Rip van Winkle (1916).
Content: Binding, by Bayntum of Bath, England, of blue morocco, gilt.
Content: Issued in a handmade, blue cloth-covered clamshell box.
Physical Description
Pen and ink drawings
Watercolors
Extent: 1 volume (22 pen and ink drawings with watercolour) : color Illustrations ; 47cm.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 131732598
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16833004
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 34973b80-c6b9-012f-2d17-58d385a7bc34
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