The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella

Cinderella / Retold by C. S. Evans. London: William Heinemann, [1919]. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. First trade edition, first printing. Bound in pictorial boards in orange and black, with orange and white lettering on the cover, the spine in orange cloth with black lettering and stamping. 110 numbered pages, 19.2 x 25.8 cm. Frontispiece in colour mounted on cream paper, three double-page illustrations that are silhouette drawings with colour, thirteen full-page silhouette drawings without colour, and thirty-six silhouette drawings in the text; also pictorial endpapers in green and white.

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The Sleeping Beauty / Retold by C. S. Evans London: William Heinemann, [1920]. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. First trade edition, first printing. Bound in pictorial boards in rose and black, with a rose cloth back, rose and white lettering on the cover and black lettering on the spine. 110 numbered pages, 19.2 x 25.8 cm. Frontispiece in colour mounted on white paper with a pictorial border, three double-page silhouette drawings with colour, two full-page silhouette drawings with colour and six double and eight single-page silhouette drawings in black and white; also forty-one drawings in the text, pictorial end-papers in green and white.

Condition

Some external wear to boards, bumping and rubbing to corners and spine tips. Foxed to edges, heavily so to prelims and tissue guard, darkening to extremities of pages. Joints and hinges in good order with pages well bound with the exception of a signature in Cinderella that has become partially detached. Inscription in pen to one of the blank FFEPs of The Sleeping Beauty, and inscription in pen to front paste-down of Cinderella, dated 1919. In very good, unclipped dust wrappers, with darkening to spines, some chips, creases and tears to extremities, including a little loss to spine tips; with adverts to rear. A delightful little pair of these beloved fairy tales featuring the illustrations of Arthur Rackham.