[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Fitz-Gerald, S.J. Adair The Zankiwank & The
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Description
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1896. First edition. 8vo. (xii), 188 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece with tissue guard, 16 full-page illustrations, and numerous in-text illustrations, all in black and white, title-page printed in red and black. Publisher's dark green cloth, stamped in gilt, top corners lightly bumped, some bubbling to cloth; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; scattered very light foxing to prelims, a few smudges to text; offsetting to frontispiece and title-page from tissue guard; Latimore & Haskell, p. 8; Riall, p. 15
A near-fine copy of the first book in which Arthur Rackham is credited as the sole illustrator on the title-page.
Provenance
From the Children’s and Illustrated Books Library of Nicholas Wedge, Ossining, New York
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