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Very Good - Bound in full dark-green morocco, gilt-lettered spine with raised bands and decorative title panel; front board gilt-stamped Peer Gynt and Rackham’s stylised ornament; top edge gilt, others uncut; marbled endpapers. A clean and finely executed binding, in excellent condition with only light rubbing to extremities. Title-page printed in sepia and black, publisher’s imprint George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London (date 1936 printed on verso). Printed on cream wove paper with decorative sepia line borders and numerous black-and-white vignettes by Rackham throughout.
Twelve full-page colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham, bound integrally within the text and each protected by a tissue guard printed with the plate title, facing the following pages: frontispiece, 30, 40, 44, 66, 74, 100, 108, 148, 170, 222 and 244.
All plates present, bright, and clean; tissue guards intact; contents crisp and free of marks or foxing.
Light bumping to extremities & corners of textblock, boards lightly bowed, internally smart. Collated & complete. 4to. pp. [9], 1, [1], 256, [3]. Gatherings: π¹ + A–Q⁸ + R⁴ = 33 quires. Complete as called for. (Latimore & Haskell p. 72; Riall p. 197.) Please see photos as part of condition report
