Item #900986 Costume through the Ages: A Series of Six Beautiful Water-Colour Drawings. Arthur Rackham.
Costume through the Ages: A Series of Six Beautiful Water-Colour Drawings
Costume through the Ages: A Series of Six Beautiful Water-Colour Drawings
Costume through the Ages: A Series of Six Beautiful Water-Colour Drawings
Costume through the Ages: A Series of Six Beautiful Water-Colour Drawings
Costume through the Ages: A Series of Six Beautiful Water-Colour Drawings
Costume through the Ages: A Series of Six Beautiful Water-Colour Drawings
Costume through the Ages: A Series of Six Beautiful Water-Colour Drawings

Costume through the Ages: A Series of Six Beautiful Water-Colour Drawings

London: Maggs Bros. Ltd., 1938.
Paperback.

Specially drawn to illustrate “Peeps into the Past” but never published. Undated, printed in 1938.

Advertising circular with black and white reproductions of 6 original privately commissioned water-colour drawings by Arthur Rackham to be sold as a set. These reproductions include:

  • The Peep Show – Two ladies in elaborate floral Victorian costumes, bonnet, flowers, and three children looking in a Peep Show. In background booths and tents of a fair, with sightseers in black silhouette; in foreground a decorative design of fairies, fauns and brownies (Frontispiece).
  1. Roman Period – Lady in robes and sandals, looking at herself in hand mirror; mountains seen through colonnade in background.
  2. Plantagenet Period – Lady in the costume of the period, standing in field, holding flowers, page behind, castle in background.
  3. Stuart Period – Lady in costume, holding up a mask, small dog on lead; Puritan lady, in black, with white collar, tall black hat, passing her by; in background church and Tudor fronted houses.
  4. Georgian Period – Lady in costume, large feathered hat, holding a fan, a gallant in white wig, standing behind her.
  5. Victorian Period – Lady standing by a sundial, large hat, flowered dress; tree in background to left.
Item #900986

5-1/4 x 8-1/8”, thin stapled wrappers, unpaginated, 4 internal text pages including descriptions of illus., 2 folding illustration pages on glossy paper, including a double-page single-fold frontis. plate tipped in at front hinge and multi-folding leaf with five additional single-page illustrations tipped in at rear hinge.

Wrappers torn at fold from edges to staples, small tear bottom-edge rear wrapper, internally clean and folds intact, a very nice copy of a fragile item, very good overall.

Price: $125.00

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