A lovely Deluxe Limited Edition Cinderella, with the most charming illustrations by Arthur Rackham. This is one of the 525 copies only on English Hand Made Paper .

( out of 525, 500 were offered for sale initially, the other 25 were reserved for presentation). 

Book: CINDERELLA, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham and signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1919.  Full colour frontis and numerous silhouette illustrations by Arthur Rackham,  many are full page. Profusely illustrated and decorated. The paper is textured, similar to a smoother variety of Arches or Fabriano. Large Quarto size. The book is bound in full green morocco leather, with gilt borders and spine, and with five embossed darts in black emanating from the spine on both cover, green marbled florentine-type free end papers and leather joints, AEG (all edges gilt). I have once seen another copy of this edition of Cinderella in the same tooled green morocco binding, and so I believe this was a design done for Rackham's Cinderella circa 1920 by one of the better known bookbinders in London, possibly Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Book condition: An excellent copy. The exterior, VERY GOOD+, slight wear to extremities of binding, slight small few scratches - very minor. Gilt very bright. Gilt edges also bright. Inside, the book is NR FINE. Typical transferring of inks from the silhouette illustrations which occurs on every copy of this book, as it it was printed on hand-made paper and the inks have absorbed into the porous surface, slight few small spots on a tissue guard and few pages. An excellent, very lovely copy. Very tight binding. Cinderella remains one of the best loved fairy tales - a wonderful classic, a wonderful gift, much enhanced by Arthur Rackham's charming drawings and very special as a limited edition.  

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