Undine Illustrated By Arthur Rackham

De La Motte fouque, Friedrich; Courtney, W. L. (Adaptation from the German)

Verlag: William Heinemann Ltd. - Doubleday, Page & Co., London - New York, 1911

Beschreibung

1911 at title page; stated at copyright: "First printed, October 1909, Second impression, February 1911". Textured brownish olive boards, brown cloth spine wrap, charcoal impressed cover titles and design, moderate shelf wear, some spine fleck, rub. Front cover w/Rackham depiction of Undine the mermaid on sea floor, head in hands, as fish swim about her. Heavy stock leaves very good. Frontipiece plate of Undine dancing: "Undine outside the window". Stylish title page w/illustrated banners of mermaids in deco pattern above and fish in similar pattern below titles. Monochromatic illustrated endpapers by Arthur Rackham; design in green of Undine w/castle in b.g. while various orgres, elves, and creatures look down upon from branches and huddle off to side. Includes contents and list of illustrations. Bind good; hinges reinforced. Enchantingly illustrated by Arthur Rackham w/fifteen tipped-in color plates, mounted on matte leaves, each with a captioned tissue guard, and nearly forty drawings & designs as openings, headers and tail-pieces. This is the charming and dramatic story of the Knight Huldbrand of Ringstetten and of Undine. And how the Knight wedded with a water-sprite, and what chanced therefrom. Then, how the Knight died and was buried, and how Undine returned to her element beneath the Mediterranean Sea. Very good interior and plates w/some wear to exterior, spine fleck. Printed by Ballantyne & Co. Limited, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London. Illustrations by Hentschel Colourtype. 136 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 020539

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Undine Illustrated By Arthur Rackham

Verlag: William Heinemann Ltd. - Doubleday, Page & Co., London - New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1911

Einband: Hard Cover

Illustrator: Rackham, Arthur

Zustand: Good

Auflage: First Edition.