The Grey Lady

[Rackham, Arthur] Merriman, Henry Seton

Published by Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1897

About this Item

First edition with Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Publisher's lavender-gray cloth, front cover with small blind-stamped device, lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, dark gray-blue coated end-papers. Octavo 7 9/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 193 x 130 mm.). Collating viii, 342, [2, advertisements]. Twelve half-tone plates (including frontispiece). A near fine copy. Acclaimed by The Observer that year as being "amongst the cleverest and most interesting of recent novels." Hugh Stowell Scott (1862-1903), the author, was a prominent English novelist who used the pseudonym Henry Seton Merriman. The Grey Lady was first published in 1895 without illustrations. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrators 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Grey Lady
• Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co, London
• Publication Date: 1897
• Edition: First Thus.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Illustrated Books