SUPERB DELUXE EDITION IN ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme
Nisbet, 1920.
First edition, Edition de Luxe, in large format, printed on beautiful handmade paper. Number 51 of only 250 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Large quarto, 335mm x 265mm. Full white buckram with gilt embossed lettering and illustration. Top edge is gilt and others are untrimmed. In the very rare pictorial dustwrapper. From endpaper to endpaper each page is decorated with black and white drawings, in a striking art nouveau style. There are twelve colour plates mounted beneath captioned tissue guards, all are in perfect condition. The plates are vibrant and striking. A fine book in a very good dustwrapper, which has a couple of chips to the spine ends.
This book is a wonderful co-operation of Ransome telling the story of Aladdin and His Lamp in rhyme and beautiful decorations by Yorkshire artist, Thomas Mackenzie. In a letter in late 1919 Mackenzie laments problems with the production of this Edition-de-Luxe saying that the sheets were not dry enough to be bound up, because of "the continuous damp weather and the hand made paper it is printed on". As a result the Deluxe edition did not go on sale until sometime in 1920 (the book was aimed at the Christmas gift market of 1919). This copy has two pieces of tissue loosely inserted between pages of text, presumably to blot any damp ink, one of which has heavy impressions of the text and decoration. He also comments "there are mistakes in it due to inexperience and immaturity which I hope you will close your eyes to."
Stock ID: 31850
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