The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1920)
Book ID: 70481
Price: €250.00
The Sleeping Beauty. Told by C.S. Evans and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1920. A later issue of the first edition, without the decorated end papers. Quarter cloth pictorial paper boards, a nice bright copy, without the dust jacket.
Illustrated with a mounted coloured plate, double-page tinted frontispiece, pictorial title, and three other double-page coloured plates printed on coated paper together with 57 other silhouettes.
“Like his Cinderella (1919), The Sleeping Beauty relied “almost wholly for effect on silhouette. Rackham was a master of the medium, being able to evoke character and humour by profile and gesture alone, and allowing the two-dimensional effect of his pen work to lead the reader through the book and keep the story going” (Hamilton, 118).
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