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Rackham (Arthur) Wagner (Richard), The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie, 1910, Heinemann/Doubleday,...
Wagner (Richard), The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie, 1910, Heinemann/Doubleday, numbered limited edition of 1150, signed by Arthur Rackham, 34 tipped-in colour plates, each with printed tissue guard, full vellum (not the publisher's vellum);
Swinburne (Algernon Charles), The Springtide of Life, Poems of Childhood, 1918, Heinemann, 8 colour plates after Arthur Rackham, original cloth (2)
Sold for £240
Estimated at £80 - £120
Wagner - Hinge gaping after end paper, tanning to some pages, edges tanned. Several plates with corner creasing, vellum tanned. Swinburne - lengthy ownership inscription to verso of endpaper, some foxing to early and later leaves, otherwise contents VG, cloth dull and a little rippled.
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