Sale 2519 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, October 10, 2019

498 c   (RACKHAM,ARTHUR.) [Barham, Richard Harris.] The Ingoldsby Legends. 24 tipped-in color plates by Rackham with lettered tissue guards and numerous in-text illustrations.Thick 4to, pictorial vellum, usual slight discoloration, ties loose but laid inside; light toning to text leaves. first limited english edition . number 201 of 560 copies signed by rackham . Latimore & Haskell 31. London and NewYork: J.M. Dent, 1907 [600/900] 499 c   (RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. 12 tipped-in color plates by Rackham with lettered tissue guards; 20 black-and-white and silhouette illustrations throughout the text. Large 4to, publisher’s gilt-pictorial vellum, slightly bowed, ties lacking, one laid inside; top edges trimmed and gilt, others uncut, endpapers with bookplate and some mild toning. London: Heinemann and Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1915) [1,500/2,500] first limited edition . number 387 of 525 copies signed by rackham and his first illustrated dickens . Heinemann’s original single-sheet prospectus for the book is laid in, with the price hand-corrected to 7/6s. Latimore and Haskell 44-45; Riall 124-125. 498 499