Peer Gynt. A Dramatic Poem.

Signed limited edition, number 58 of 460 copies signed by the artist, of which 450 were for sale. In Peer Gynt, one of Rackham's last major book projects, "Rackhamerie abounds" (Gettings, p. 165). Including "delightfully impish and imaginative" illustrations, "it is seldom that the work of artist and author is more happily married" (Tinker). Ibsen's play, based on a Norwegian fairy tale, was originally published in 1867. Latimore & Haskell, p. 74; Riall, p. 192. Fred Gettings, Rackham's Best Book Illustrations, 1976; Edward Larocque Tinker, "New Editions, Fine & Otherwise", The New York Times, 13 December 1936. Quarto. Colour frontispiece, 11 colour plates, all mounted and with captioned tissue guards, illustrations in-text. Original parchment, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut, some leaves unopened. Housed in original card slipcase, spine with printed and hand-numbered label. Engraved bookplate of the Rochambeau family. Couple of marks to binding, minor foxing to fore and bottom edges, internally clean; slipcase toned and a little worn: a very good copy in like slipcase.…