The Sleeping Beauty

Signed limited deluxe edition, limited to 625 copies, this is number 141, signed by the illustrator Arthur Rackham. Quarter vellum with gilt lettering to the spine, paper covered boards, gilt decoration to the front, top edge gilt, covers tanned and somewhat soiled or marked, with rubbing to the fore edge and a few bumps at the corners. Square, secure binding, green decorative endpapers, tipped in colour plate at the beginning of the first chapter, silhouette illustrations throughout in black, a few in black, red, and green, one in black, orange, and grey. Offsetting from the illustrations, pages otherwise tidy. Printed on English handmade paper. Good condition. Quarto, 29x23cm, [2]110[1]pp.