The Night Before Christmas; The King of the Golden River; Goblin Market; The Pied Piper of Hamelin

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Category

Childrens and Illustrated

Author

Browning, Robert

Clement C. Moore

Christina Rossetti

Ruskin, John

Illustrator

Rackham, Arthur

Reference

1453

[001491] Moore, Clement C.; Ruskin, John; Rossetti, Christina; Browning, Robert. The Night Before Christmas; The King of the Golden River; Goblin Market; The Pied Piper of Hamelin. ill. Rackham, Arthur. London and Philadelphia: George Harrop and J.B. Lippincott, First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Signed by Illustrator. Good+ / Fair. Four volumes, 1931-1934 - Moore, 'Night Before Christmas', 1931, [10], 11-35pp, [3], number 78 of two hundred and seventy-five copies for the USA; Ruskin, 'King of the Golden River', 1932, [4], 5-47pp, [1], number 242 of five hundred and fifty copies; Rossetti, 'Goblin Market', 1933, [6], 7-42pp, [4], number 349 of four hundred copies; and Browning, 'Pied Piper of Hamelin', 1934, [6], 7-44pp, [2], number 241 of four hundred and ten copies

Deluxe editions, all bound in limp vellum, t.e.g., first title in original glassine wrapper which is chipped with small amounts of loss. Spine of 'Goblin Market' very slightly dulled. Endpapers to 'Night Before Christmas' are browned, otherwise internally clean

Each with four colour plates by Rackham, and each signed by Rackham to limitation leaf. All in original publishers card slipcases, with original paper label to side or head, and now housed in a leather entry slipcase with Cockerell paper sides made by Temple Bookbinders

A run of Rackham's later Christmas books, uncommon in the original slipcases

Riall, pages 174, 176, 179 and 186 respectively