Adapted from German by W.L. Courtney
Undine Adapted from German by W.L. Courtney
Heinemann, 1909.
First edition. Number 587 of 1000 Deluxe copies, on hand made paper. Signed by Arthur Rackham. Large 4to. Publisher's full white vellum binding with gilt titles and gilt stamped decoration to upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Original gold silk ties. Fifteen colour plates mounted onto brown art paper and protected by captioned tissue guards. Line drawings as chapter headings and endings. A fine copy.
Rackham's illustrations to this tale are hauntingly beautiful. The 1909 Christmas Bookman review of this volume reads, "The story of Undine, the water-spirit, and the Knight of Huldbrand who wedded her, seems to have been waiting for Mr Rackham's brush... There could have been, perhaps, no more fitting theme for all the imaginative beauty and force of his work than this weird and beautiful romance."
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