Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

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Robert Browning and Arthur Rackham | The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1934, deluxe edition

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Robert Browning and Arthur Rackham


The Pied Piper of Hamelin. London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1934


SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, 8vo (236 x 155 mm), signed and dated ("Arthur Rackham | 1934") with pen drawing of two rats, four coloured plates (including frontispiece) and fourteen black-and-white drawings (one double-page), publisher's gilt-lettered limp vellum, top edge gilt, endpapers patterned with rats, deckled edges, housed in publisher's cardboard slipcase, very occasional light spotting, vellum slightly browned at top edge

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