Author: Richard Wagner
Title: Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods
Publisher: Heinemann/Doubleday – London/New York
Edition: First Illustrated Limited Edition
Pages: 182
(Rackham, Arthur). Richard Wagner. Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods. An outstanding and near fine copy bound in full vellum with gold decorations. Illustrated by Rackham with thirty mounted color plates on heavy brown paper each with a titled tissue-guards. Published in 1911 by William Heinemann and Doubleday-Page, London, and New York and printed by Ballantyne & Co. Ltd., London.
Condition: 4to, 11 1/2″ x 9 1/2″ gilt-pictorial vellum, top-edge gilt, silk ties. Numbered One Hundred Seventy Nine Of 1150 Copies, translated by Margaret Armour and SIGNED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM as called for on the Limitation page. Publishers’ Cream-colored vellum binding, gilt stamped decorations on front cover and spine still bright. A bit of toning and soiling to the edges, a small tear to the front silk tie, foxing to the endpapers, preliminary and a few interior pages. A small gold bookseller’s label on the lower rear endpaper. Overall, one of the nicer examples of this sought after Rackham title available on the market today.
