Arthur Rackham - The Allies Fairy Book - 1st Ed 1916 - 12 Col Plts - Fairy Tales

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Arthur Rackham - The Allies Fairy Book - 1st Ed 1916 - 12 Col Plts - Fairy Tales:
$118.12

The Allies\' Fairy Book With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Published by Heinemann, London, undated [1916]. First Edition. Hardback book with gilt title to spine and gilt and black to upper board. 122 pages. 12 colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Good clean condition. The boards and spine are good with just light signs of age. Binding is square and with all contents present including all 12 colour plates. Pages clean throughout and free from foxing, stain etc. ne of the colour plates has a small pinkish mark on the reverse side but all other plates good. Inscription to front endpaper dated 1916. Overall a good first edition. ABOUT THE BOOK
The Allies\' Fairy Book, published by Heinemann in 1916 as a contribution to the mood of patriotism and cooperation between the Allies, is likewise composed of images that thrill and inspire, but do not terrify. Where in Grimm, Rackham happily includes illustrations of people battering each other to death or hanging by the hair and caught in brambles alive or half dead, this kind of image is not dwelt upon in The Allies\' Fairy Book. even though some of the stories are as red in tooth and claw as any of their type and certainly would have allowed a violent interpretation. Reports coming back from the Front, eye-witness accounts of devastation, violation and butchery, were quite enough to suggest to Rackham and his publishers that at this time the Allies could be spared violent images with their family reading at home.\" (Hamilton, Arthur Rackham. p. 109). The stories in this book include: English: Jack the Giant-Killer - Scottish: The Battle of the Birds - Welsh: Lludd and LlevelysIrish: Guleesh - French: The Sleeping Beauty - Italian: Cesarino and The Dragon - Portuguese: What Came of Picking Flowers - Japanese: The Adventures of Little Peachling, The Fox\'s Wedding and The Tongue-cut Sparrow - Russian: Frost - Serbian: The Golden Apple-tree and The Nine Pea Hens - Belgium: The Last Adventure of Thyl Ulenspiegel