Comus by Milton John, Signed (23 results)

Hardcover. Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Preface by Mark Van Doren and Hubert Foss. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with gilt spine lettering and marbled paper over boards, slipcase. 57pp, (15pp). Color frontispiece, full-page color plates. Near fine/near fine. Handsome and tight trade edition of the Limited Edition Club's signed limited 1954 edition. Mark Van Doren introduces Milton 1634 chastity-themed courtly entertainment, while five accompanying musical pieces with lyrics by 17th century composer Henry Lawes are introduced by Hubert Foss.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. Illustrator Edmund Dulac's last book. Excellent copy in publisher's case.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Edition De Luxe. Limited edition of 550, signed and numbered by Rackham. Bound in publisher's 1/2 parchment over beige boards. Gilt images of four creatures on the front cover. Some darkening, soiling to cover. Corners lightly bumped. Blue end pages showing the silhouette of nymphs and fawns. xviii, 76 pages, 24 tipped in color plates & black and white illustrations; 26 cm. Pages are generally clean. Latimore & Haskell, p. 54; Riall, p. 143. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). Limited Signed Numbered Edition. 76pgs. Frontispiece. illustrated blue and white endpapers. Half-title, gilt decorated boards. 24 exquisite mounted coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, illustrations. Original vellum-backed pictorial paper boards with gilt titles and decorations. Top edges gilt. This edition is a limited edition, number 459 of 550 copies signed by the artist. There is darkening to the covers, toning to the spine.The corner tips show minor wear. Internally clean, unmarked. A wonderful edition of this classic story of virtue vs. desire. Size: Quarto. Signed by the Illustrator. Book.

xviii, 76 pp. With 24 tipped-in color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, each with printed tissue overleaf; additional illustrations in black and white. Folio, publisher's art-vellum-backed gilt-decorated boards, t.e.g. First edition. No.158 of 550 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham. Light foxing to the white boards; light rubbing at edges; contents fine.

Condition: Good. Quarto, 23 x 29cm; xv, 76 pp.; original publisher's half gilt-stamped vellum spine , cream-colored paper boards. Illustrated book with 24 photomechanical color halftone lithographs, photomechanical relief print decorations. One of 300 signed and numbered copies.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:228695518l:Notes:"Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage Trois cents exemplaires numétorés a? la Presse de 1 a? 300" -- preliminary pagesEnd papers are illustratedPlates have descriptive letter pressText in proseEach plate has a guard-sheet with appropriate lines.in-4, bradel demi-vélin ivoire, dos lisse, titre doré, premierplat orné d'une composition dorée d'animaux fantastiques et du titredoré, tête dorée (reliure de l'éditeur). Cartonnage légt défraichi,petites usures en coiffe de tête.$$42 dessins en noir et 24compositions en couleurs d'Arthur Rackham.Tirage à 300 exemplaires, n°127 sur vélin fort, numéroté et signé par l'artiste.Première et dernière pages brunies avec transferts des illustrationsdes gardes, comme souvent.Expertise by Cabinet Poulain. Paris.Elvire Poulain-Marquis : 06 72 38 90 90.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). Limited Edition. Signed limited edition, number 284 of 550 copies. Boards a trifle discoloured, Internally a very fresh clean copy, no creased plates. This was the long delayed publication from before the First World War. The quality of the illustrations is superb and the volume is a 'must have' for any lover of Rackham's evocative fairy and tree nymph period. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First Edition. From limitation page: "This Edition is limited to 550 copies numbered and signed by the Artist, of which 400 are for sale in the United Kingdom, 100 for sale in the United States of America, and 50 for presentation. This is No. 514. Arthur Rackham". Folio 9 1/4" x 12" gift book design. Cream vellum spine wrap w/gilt titles, some rub. Front board features stylized gilt cover titles and several ogre-like creatures including donkey, goat, wolf and owl. Color frontispiece plate w/caption: "All amidst the Gardens fair, Of Hesperus, and his daughters three, That sing about the golden tree." Fine tissue guard w/printed caption. Thick, deckled pages near fine, clean. Gilt top edge w/some rub. Green pictorial endpapers with white silhouettes of four maidens bounding past tree and small satyr-like beings in pursuit. Bind good; hinges intact. Features two dozen tipped-in color plates on thick matte pages by the wondrous illustrator, Arthur Rackham - two more than first edition. Each plate beautifully rich with subdued colors and featuring Rackham at his most magically best; each with fine tissue guards with printed captions. Illustrations produced by the Hentschel Colour-Type Process. Additionally, includes full and partial page b&w imagery, headers, tailpieces, and decorative designs throughout. Rare near very good example of fine book craftsmanship. Full title of John Milton's Comus: "A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle 1634: on Michelmas night, before the right honorable John, Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackley, Lord President of Wales, and one of His Majesty's most honorable privy council." Here, in John Milton's masque Comus, the god is described as the son of Bacchus and Circe, a post-classical invention. The tale concerns two brothers and their sister, simply called "the Lady", lost in a journey through the woods. When the Lady becomes fatigued, the brothers wander off in search of sustenance. While alone, she encounters the debauched Comus, a character inspired by the god of revelry, disguised as a villager who claims he will lead her to her brothers. Deceived by his amiable countenance, the Lady follows him, only to be captured, brought to his pleasure palace and victimised by his necromancy. Printed in Great Britain by The Cornwall Press, Ltd., Paris Garden, Stamford Street, London. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Artist.

Leather Bound. Condition: vg. Signed limited edition. Quarto. Rebound in brown leather. (fading to leather) Five raised bands. Gilt letterint to spine. Moire endpapers. This edition is limited to 550 copies numbered and signed by the artist of which 400 are for sale in the United Kingdom, 100 for sale in the United States and 50 for presentation. This is copy #115. Twenty-two full page gorgeous color mounted plates with tissue guards by Rackham. Binding shows edge wear along spine both front and back covers. Ribbon frayed. Interior very nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. A sharp copy of this limited edition of 550 copies SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy SIGNED by Rackham in collector's condition. We buy First Editions of Children's books. Signed by Author(s).

#955 of 1500 numbered copies. 250th publication of LEC and the 6th of the 23rd series. The poem by John Milton, the songs by Henry Lawes. Prefatory material by Mark van Doren and Hubert Foss and illustrated with water colors by Edmund Dulac. This was Dulac final work, who passed away before it was printed and therefore did not sign this edition. Illustrations printed in process offset by Sun Engraving Company, designed by John Dreyfus. Book printed and bound by the Cambridge University Press, set in monotype Bembo on Barcham Green hand made paper. Half velum spine gold stamped with marbled paper sides. 94 pages, 7 3/8 x 10 ¼ inches. Near fine book in a VG slipcase Print info from 1985 Bibliography and Snyman - Grossman LEC Checklist #250. Signed.

4°, 76 S. mit zahlreichen s/w Illustrationen und Vignetten sowie XXIV auf braunem Karton montierten Farbillustrationen mit ihren bedruckten Seidenhemdchen von Arthur Rackham, illustrierte Vorsätze, Orig.-Halbpergament mit Deckel- und Rückenvergoldung und Kopfgoldschnitt. Erste französische Ausgabe.- Eines von 300 nummerierten und von Rackham signierten Exemplaren auf schwerem, handgeschöpften Bütten.- Kanten etwas bestossen, die braunen Auflagekartons für die Farbabbildungen etwas abfärbend.

1/4 Vellum. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very presentable copy of the 1921 1st French edition, #110 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM at the illustration. Solid and VG in its 1/4 vellum over off-white boards, with light soiling at the panels and along the spine. Tall quarto, deckled fore and bottom-edges. The 24 mounted color plates --all in their captioned tissue-guards-- present as called for. Signed.

An original illustration by Arthur Rackham, reproduced as the frontispiece for the 1921 William Heinemann edition of John Milton's 'Comus'. Depicting the three Hesperides, the nymphs of evening, guarding the tree of golden apples before a backdrop of rolling hills and a rose-covered fence. A hint of the dragon Ladon can be seen just beyond the fence. Beautifully rendered in watercolour and ink and displaying Rackham's distinct use of deep, muted colours. Signed to the bottom left. Retaining the contemporary thin oak frame and backboard with New York gallerist's label. Remounted using archival, acid free materials and glazed with replacement museum quality UV glass. The illustration measures 26.7 x 30.5 cm, and the frame measures 51.8 x 64.5 cm. In fine condition, the colours rich and without fading. This stunning original artwork, with its lush detailing, refined brushwork and sensitively drawn figures, shows Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), master of The Golden Age of Illustration, at his absolute best. The composition and imagery of the draped nymphs holding hands around the golden apple tree are reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones' (1833-1898) c. 1870 painting 'The Garden of the Hesperides', just one of Burne-Jones' many depictions of the Hesperides, a subject that reflects the mythic and nature-based predilections of the late Victorian artistic imagination that maintained a thread from the Pre-Raphealite Brotherhood through to the Art Nouveau illustrators of the early 20th century. Rackham produced 24 colour illustrations and numerous line drawings for Heinemann's edition of John Milton's masque 'Comus', originally planned for publication in 1915 but pushed back to 1921 due to uncertainties in publishing during World War I. Fred Gettings notes that by the 1920s a 'softening' is discernible in Rackham's style, citing his illustration of the Hesperides as an example of a reduction in the use of graphic ink lines and an increase in tonal painting techniques to create subtle definition. Indeed, while delicate ink lines are used for the perimeters of the nymphs' forms, their features and much of their bodies are indicated with very soft paint work, lending them an angelic quality that strays slightly from the heavier, folkloric essence of Rackham's earlier titles such as 'Peter Pan' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. 'Comus', an allegorical morality tale exalting chastity, was written by John Milton (1608-1674) in 1634 and was presented to the 1st Earl of Bridgewater at Ludlow Castle. The masque begins with two brothers becoming separated from their sister while travelling through a forest; the lady is enchanted and tempted with debauchery by Comus, the Greek god of revelry. The brothers are then visited by an angelic attendant spirit who summons the virgin nymph Sabrina to break Comus' spell. Victorious, the spirit sings a song that describes the celestial realm to which he will now return, including the idyllic garden of the Hesperides. Provenance: Scott and Fowles, 667 Fifth Avenue, New York. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Reliure de l'éditeur. Librairie Hachette et Cie | Paris s. d. [circa 1921] | 24 x 29.6 cm | Reliure de l'éditeur | Édition illustrée de 24 compositions d'Arthur Rackham en couleurs contrecollées sur carton fort sous serpentes légendées et 8 compositions à pleine page en noir ainsi que de nombreux ornements et vignettes dans le texte par Arthur Rackham, un des 300 exemplaires imprimés sur vélin fort à la forme enrichis d'une signature autographe d'Arthur Rackham dans la justification. Reliure de l'éditeur à la bradel en demi vélin, dos lisse titré à l'or, premier plat estampé à l'or du titre et d'une illustration représentant des animaux fantastiques et un filet doré vertical, gardes et contreplats illustrés, tête dorée, témoins conservés. Provenance?: Maurice Feuillet, ex-libris manuscrit sur la page de faux-titre. Illustrateur de presse, notamment pour les grandes affaires judiciaires, mais aussi critique d'art et fondateur du Figaro artistique, Feuillet est resté célèbre pour avoir réalisé les croquis d'audience lors des procès d'Émile Zola en 1898 et d'Alfred Dreyfus en 1899. Exemplaire en très bel état de conservation du spectacle baroque et dionysiaque du célèbre poète anglais John Milton, superbement illustré des compositions d'Arthur Rackham. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] Illustrated edition with 24 colour plates by Arthur Rackham tipped in with captioned tissue guards, 8 full-page black-and-white illustrations, together with numerous ornaments and vignettes in the text by Arthur Rackham, one of 300 copies printed on vélin à la forme, signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Publisher's Bradel binding in full bright white vellum, smooth spine lettered in gilt, upper cover gilt-stamped with the title and a design of fantastic animals within a vertical gilt rule, illustrated endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, untrimmed edges preserved. A very well-preserved copy of Milton's baroque and Dionysian spectacle, superbly illustrated by Rackham. Provenance: manuscript ex-libris on the half-title of Maurice Feuillet, a renowned press illustrator, particularly noted for major court cases, as well as an art critic and founder of the Figaro artistique.Feuillet is remembered for his courtroom sketches during the trials of Émile Zola in 1898 and Alfred Dreyfus in 1899. *.

Condition: Near Fine. Deluxe edition. Number 312 of 550, signed and numbered by Rackham on the limitation page. Near Fine and retaining all 24 mounted color plates on brown paper with multiple black and white illustrations throughout. Sympathetically rebound maintaining original pictorial endpapers, some offsetting to front flyleaf from pictorial endpaper (before rebinding). Bound in full blue crushed morroco with gilt dentelles, spine with raised bands, decorative tooling in the compartments and gilt title. Minor wear to exterior boards, but interior bright and clean. "Another, more important, publication of Rackham's in 1921 was a long-delayed edition of Milton's Comus, the drawings for which, begun before the war, deserve to rank with his best work of that earlier period." (Hudson). Comus (A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) is a masque in honour of chastity, written by John Milton. It was first presented on Michaelmas, 1634, before John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater at Ludlow Castle in celebration of the Earl's new post as Lord President of Wales. Known colloquially as Comus, the masque's actual full title is A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: on Michelmas night, before the Rt Hon. Iohn Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackly, Lord President of Wales, and one of His Maiesties most honorable privie councill. Comus was printed anonymously in 1637, in a quarto issued by bookseller Humphrey Robinson; Milton included the work in his Poems of 1645 and 1673. Milton's text was later used for a highly successful masque by the musician Thomas Arne in 1738, which then ran for more than seventy years in London. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Rial 143. Near Fine. Signed.

Condition: Fine. First thus. Edition deluxe, number 375 of 550 copies, a Fine copy. Large quarto (11 5/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 295 x 225 mm.). xviii, 76, [1, blank], [1, printer's device] pp. Twenty-four color plates mounted on brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards, thirty-seven drawings in black and white. Bound ca. 1992 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for E. Joseph (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) in full dark green crushed levant morocco. Covers ruled in gilt, front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt to match the original 1921 cover design, spine paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-ruled board edges and turn-ins, top edge gilt, others uncut, original pictorial endpapers. "Another, more important, publication of Rackham's in 1921 was a long-delayed edition of Milton's Comus, the drawings for which, begun before the war, deserve to rank with his best work of that earlier period." (Hudson). Comus (A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) is a masque in honour of chastity, written by John Milton. It was first presented on Michaelmas, 1634, before John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater at Ludlow Castle in celebration of the Earl's new post as Lord President of Wales. Known colloquially as Comus, the masque's actual full title is A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: on Michelmas night, before the Rt Hon. Iohn Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackly, Lord President of Wales, and one of His Maiesties most honorable privie councill. Comus was printed anonymously in 1637, in a quarto issued by bookseller Humphrey Robinson; Milton included the work in his Poems of 1645 and 1673. Milton's text was later used for a highly successful masque by the musician Thomas Arne in 1738, which then ran for more than seventy years in London. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Latimore and Haskell, pp. 54-55. Riall, p. 143. Fine. Signed.

Condition: Very Good +. First thus. Edition deluxe, number 215 of 550 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Large quarto (11 11/16 x 8 7/8 inches; 297 x 225 mm.). xviii, 76, [1, blank], [1, printer's device] pp. Twenty-four color plates mounted on brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards, thirty-seven drawings in black and white. Publisher's quarter vellum over cream-colored parchment boards. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial endpapers in blue and white. Spine darkened, slight 'toning' to parchment boards, corners bumped, board edges rubbed, internally clean. Housed in a tan cloth slipcase. "Another, more important, publication of Rackham's in 1921 was a long-delayed edition of Milton's Comus, the drawings for which, begun before the war, deserve to rank with his best work of that earlier period." (Hudson). Comus (A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) is a masque in honour of chastity, written by John Milton. It was first presented on Michaelmas, 1634, before John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater at Ludlow Castle in celebration of the Earl's new post as Lord President of Wales. Known colloquially as Comus, the masque's actual full title is A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: on Michelmas night, before the Rt Hon. Iohn Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackly, Lord President of Wales, and one of His Maiesties most honorable privie councill. Comus was printed anonymously in 1637, in a quarto issued by bookseller Humphrey Robinson; Milton included the work in his Poems of 1645 and 1673. Milton's text was later used for a highly successful masque by the musician Thomas Arne in 1738, which then ran for more than seventy years in London. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Latimore and Haskell, pp. 54-55. Riall, p. 143. Very Good +. Signed.

Rackham, Arthur. First Rackham Edition, number 420 of 550 copies, signed by Rackham. 24 full page mounted color plates, 37 drawings in black and white, end papers in blue and white by Arthur Rackham. 1 vols. Small 4to. Latimore and Haskell pp. 54-55; Riall 143 Publisher's half vellum and boards, gilt, t.e.g. Near fine copy (minor soiling to lower board) 24 full page mounted color plates, 37 drawings in black and white, end papers in blue and white by Arthur Rackham. 1 vols. Small 4to First Rackham Edition, number 420 of 550 copies, signed by Rackham.

Published within Rackham's edition of John Milton's Comus in 1921. The plate appears as one of the three illustrations after page 36 and is one of the 24 colour plates. The board has the title added in the artist's hand, together with identification of the book and the artist's signature. Heinemann had planned to publish an illustrated edition of Comus in 1914 but due to "the uncertainties of publishing as the war began", it was postponed until 1921. Writing on "Rackham's Best Book Illustrations", Fred Gettings notes that Rackham's style was beginning to soften: "the pictures are tending to be less coloured drawings, and are gradually becoming more and more like paintings". James Hamilton, Arthur Rackham: a life with illustration, 1990, p. 107; Fred Gettings, Arthur Rackham, 1976, pp. 139. Exhibited: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 5 January - 17 February 1974, item 14. Original drawing (275 x 194 mm) on card, laid down on board, fine ink and watercolour, signed and dated ("Arthur Rackham 1914") lower right, inscribed with title and additionally signed below mount, mounted, framed, and glazed (framed size 450 x 357 mm). Fine and unfaded.

Signed limited edition, number 320 of 550 copies signed by the illustrator. Latimore & Haskell pp. 54-5; Riall, p. 143. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 23 coloured plates tipped-in on heavy brown paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Original vellum-backed boards, spine and front cover lettered and with designs in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Covers lightly toned, corners slightly worn, occasional browning, minor crease to plate 7, minor abrasions to plate 19; a very good copy.

In-4 carré ( 295 X 230 mm ) de XV-76 pages, plein vélin ivoire, dos lisse orné du titre et d'un décor dorés, tête dorée. PREMIER TIRAGE du frontispice et des 24 "féeriques" illustrations en couleurs contrecollées sur papier fort brun sous serpentes légendées par Arthur RACKHAM. Tirage de luxe, limité à 300 exemplaires numérotés à la presse, celui-ci signé par Arthur RACKHAM. Très bel exemplaire. Enfantina Littérature Contes Fées Gravure Illustration.

Signed limited edition, number 418 of 550 numbered copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Quarto. With 22 tipped in colour plates, captioned tissues. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full blue crushed morocco, spine lettered in gilt, titles and pictorial block to front board gilt, original pictorial endpapers bound in, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine lightly sunned, wear along spine edges, A very good copy.