The Zankiwank & the Bletherwitch. With Pictures by Arthur Rackham.

First edition. The earliest book in which Arthur Rackham is named as illustrator on the title page and the first to feature his trademark style of fantastical whimsy. "Here, in the imaginative silhouettes of the attenuated, weirdly double-jointed ostrich-like figure of the Zankiwank, Arthur is finding a commercial, even a career outlet, for the 'fantastic and the imaginative' which had preoccupied him from an early age. here at last is the real Rackham breaking out" (James Hamilton, Arthur Rackham: A Biography, 1990, p. 40). Latimore & Haskell, p. 8; Riall, p. 15. Octavo. Black and white line illustrations throughout by Rackham. Original green cloth, titles and decorations to spine gilt, vignette to front cover gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed Spine slightly rolled and lightly rubbed at extremities, neat contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper, scattered light foxing. A very good copy.