° ° De La Motte Fouqué - Undine. Adapted from the German by ...

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° ° De La Motte Fouqué - Undine. Adapted from the German by W.L. Courtney. coloured pictorial title, 15 coloured plates (with captioned guards) & text decorations (by Arthur Rackham). 1st trade edition. original gilt-pictorial cloth with coloured pictorial e/ps., sm.4to. 1909; together with Steel, Flora Annie - English Fairy Tales. pictorial title, 16 coloured plates (with captioned guards) and text illus. (by Arthur Rackham); 1st trade edition. original gilt-pictorial cloth with coloured pictorial e/ps. 1918; & also Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare. coloured plates etc. by Rackham, gilt cloth, reprinted, 1939; sold with another book - Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Art-Union series, 1863)

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Undine - wear head of spine, sm. split lwr joint, some e/p. browning, & some on prelims. (not title), o/w mostly clean, plt. guard missing (p.16); Steel - spine lt, worn and faded, lwr board marked, mostly clean inside: Lamb - original gilt cloth poor condition., School prize label; Coleridge - poor condition.

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11th Oct 22 at 10am BST