Description:
Fouque, Friedrich de la Motte (1777-1843) Undine, Illustrated and Signed by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) London: Heinman; and New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1909.
Large quarto, number 158 of 250 numbered copies for sale in the United States, signed by Rackham on the limitation page, illustrated with fifteen color illustrations mounted on heavy brown craft paper, bound in publisher's half vellum spine, brown paper boards, with large gilt-blocked illustration and title on the front board; front board a bit dusty, offsetting to contents from the sheets on which the illustrations are mounted, 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.
Estimate $400-600
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