1921 First Trade Edition
A DISH OF APPLES
By Eden Phillpotts
KEY DETAILS
Condition: Very Good
Format: Hardcover, Small/Crown octavo (8vo 5 3⁄8 × 8 in 137 × 203 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Published By: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1921
Language: English
Illustrated By: Arthur Rackham
Collation: 75, [3] pp.; three mounted colour plates; twenty-three black-and-white drawings, including seven full-page illustrations; pictorial endpapers.
Dust Jacket: None, as issued
SKU: BTETM0002214
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
DESCRIPTION
A Dish of Apples
A charming first trade edition of Eden Phillpotts's A Dish of Apples, illustrated throughout by Arthur Rackham and published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1921. A celebration of orchards, wassailing, cider-making and the traditional varieties of the English apple, the volume combines Phillpotts's pastoral verse with some of Rackham's characteristically imaginative late-period illustration.
The book contains three mounted colour plates together with twenty-three drawings in black and white, including seven full-page illustrations, as well as Rackham's attractive grey-and-white pictorial endpapers. The colour illustrations combine closely observed rural scenery with the fairies, sprites and anthropomorphic trees for which Rackham remains particularly celebrated.
This is the first trade edition, issued undated in the publisher's original rose-grey pictorial cloth. The trade edition contains the same suite of illustrations and pictorial endpapers as the signed limited edition issued in the same year.
CONDITION, COLLATION & COPY NOTES
COLLATION
75, [3] pp.; three mounted colour plates; twenty-three black-and-white drawings, including seven full-page illustrations; pictorial endpapers.
First trade edition, undated as issued, published in 1921.
Original rose-grey cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in brown, with Arthur Rackham's apple-gathering design to the upper board. The front-board illustration remains notably clear and attractive. Cloth with some general age-toning and light surface marking; spine faded in comparison with the boards, with rubbing and minor fraying at the head and foot. Corners and board extremities with light shelf wear.
Grey-and-white pictorial endpapers by Rackham present and attractive. Binding appears sound. Internally with scattered light foxing and occasional spotting, principally to preliminary leaves and margins, otherwise substantially clean and well preserved.
Illustrated with three mounted colour plates, all present and retaining strong colour, together with twenty-three black-and-white drawings, including seven full-page illustrations and further illustrations, headings and decorations within the text. The three colour plates comprise:
Pomona — frontispiece
Not till every leaf has flown / Will he desert his summer throne — facing p.44
Lady's apple thou shalt be — facing p.68
A pleasing example of one of Rackham's distinctive later illustrated books, with particularly attractive colour plates and a well-preserved pictorial upper board.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
REFERENCES
Latimore & Haskell, Arthur Rackham: A Bibliography, p.54
Riall, A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham, p.144
SYNOPSIS
A Dish of Apples is a sequence of twelve poems celebrating orchard life, rural custom and the apple in its many traditional forms.
The collection opens with “The Wassailing” and “Cider Makers”, before turning to poems devoted to individual varieties including Cornish Gillyflower, Ribston Pippin, Barnack Beauty, Normandy Pippin, Crab-apple, Warner's King, Cheat-the-Boys, Devonshire Quarrenden and Allington Pippin. It concludes with “Song to Pomona”, invoking the classical goddess of fruit trees and orchards.
Phillpotts's pastoral subject matter is particularly well suited to Rackham's imaginative style. His illustrations move between recognisable English orchard landscapes and a more fantastic world populated by sprites, fairies, strange rural figures and animated trees, giving the modest collection of poems considerable visual charm.
AUTHOR BIO
Eden Phillpotts (4 November 1862 – 29 December 1960) was an English novelist, poet and dramatist. Born at Mount Abu in British India and educated in Plymouth, Devon, he became an exceptionally prolific writer of fiction, poetry and drama.
Phillpotts is particularly associated with Devon and Dartmoor, whose landscape, traditions and rural communities provided the setting and inspiration for much of his writing. A Dish of Apples reflects this interest in the countryside through its celebration of orchards, harvest customs and traditional fruit varieties.
ILLUSTRATOR
Arthur Rackham
Arthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was one of the defining figures of the Golden Age of British book illustration. His distinctive technique combined finely worked pen-and-ink drawing with delicately applied watercolour, producing the atmospheric woodland scenes, fantastic creatures, fairies and expressive trees for which his work remains immediately recognisable.
Among his best-known illustrated books are Rip Van Winkle, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. His illustrations remain highly collected both as original artworks and in the illustrated books for which they were created.
1921 First Trade Edition
A DISH OF APPLES
By Eden Phillpotts
KEY DETAILS
Condition: Very Good
Format: Hardcover, Small/Crown octavo (8vo 5 3⁄8 × 8 in 137 × 203 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Published By: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1921
Language: English
Illustrated By: Arthur Rackham
Collation: 75, [3] pp.; three mounted colour plates; twenty-three black-and-white drawings, including seven full-page illustrations; pictorial endpapers.
Dust Jacket: None, as issued
SKU: BTETM0002214
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
DESCRIPTION
A Dish of Apples
A charming first trade edition of Eden Phillpotts's A Dish of Apples, illustrated throughout by Arthur Rackham and published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1921. A celebration of orchards, wassailing, cider-making and the traditional varieties of the English apple, the volume combines Phillpotts's pastoral verse with some of Rackham's characteristically imaginative late-period illustration.
The book contains three mounted colour plates together with twenty-three drawings in black and white, including seven full-page illustrations, as well as Rackham's attractive grey-and-white pictorial endpapers. The colour illustrations combine closely observed rural scenery with the fairies, sprites and anthropomorphic trees for which Rackham remains particularly celebrated.
This is the first trade edition, issued undated in the publisher's original rose-grey pictorial cloth. The trade edition contains the same suite of illustrations and pictorial endpapers as the signed limited edition issued in the same year.
CONDITION, COLLATION & COPY NOTES
COLLATION
75, [3] pp.; three mounted colour plates; twenty-three black-and-white drawings, including seven full-page illustrations; pictorial endpapers.
First trade edition, undated as issued, published in 1921.
Original rose-grey cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in brown, with Arthur Rackham's apple-gathering design to the upper board. The front-board illustration remains notably clear and attractive. Cloth with some general age-toning and light surface marking; spine faded in comparison with the boards, with rubbing and minor fraying at the head and foot. Corners and board extremities with light shelf wear.
Grey-and-white pictorial endpapers by Rackham present and attractive. Binding appears sound. Internally with scattered light foxing and occasional spotting, principally to preliminary leaves and margins, otherwise substantially clean and well preserved.
Illustrated with three mounted colour plates, all present and retaining strong colour, together with twenty-three black-and-white drawings, including seven full-page illustrations and further illustrations, headings and decorations within the text. The three colour plates comprise:
Pomona — frontispiece
Not till every leaf has flown / Will he desert his summer throne — facing p.44
Lady's apple thou shalt be — facing p.68
A pleasing example of one of Rackham's distinctive later illustrated books, with particularly attractive colour plates and a well-preserved pictorial upper board.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
REFERENCES
Latimore & Haskell, Arthur Rackham: A Bibliography, p.54
Riall, A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham, p.144
SYNOPSIS
A Dish of Apples is a sequence of twelve poems celebrating orchard life, rural custom and the apple in its many traditional forms.
The collection opens with “The Wassailing” and “Cider Makers”, before turning to poems devoted to individual varieties including Cornish Gillyflower, Ribston Pippin, Barnack Beauty, Normandy Pippin, Crab-apple, Warner's King, Cheat-the-Boys, Devonshire Quarrenden and Allington Pippin. It concludes with “Song to Pomona”, invoking the classical goddess of fruit trees and orchards.
Phillpotts's pastoral subject matter is particularly well suited to Rackham's imaginative style. His illustrations move between recognisable English orchard landscapes and a more fantastic world populated by sprites, fairies, strange rural figures and animated trees, giving the modest collection of poems considerable visual charm.
AUTHOR BIO
Eden Phillpotts (4 November 1862 – 29 December 1960) was an English novelist, poet and dramatist. Born at Mount Abu in British India and educated in Plymouth, Devon, he became an exceptionally prolific writer of fiction, poetry and drama.
Phillpotts is particularly associated with Devon and Dartmoor, whose landscape, traditions and rural communities provided the setting and inspiration for much of his writing. A Dish of Apples reflects this interest in the countryside through its celebration of orchards, harvest customs and traditional fruit varieties.
ILLUSTRATOR
Arthur Rackham
Arthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was one of the defining figures of the Golden Age of British book illustration. His distinctive technique combined finely worked pen-and-ink drawing with delicately applied watercolour, producing the atmospheric woodland scenes, fantastic creatures, fairies and expressive trees for which his work remains immediately recognisable.
Among his best-known illustrated books are Rip Van Winkle, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. His illustrations remain highly collected both as original artworks and in the illustrated books for which they were created.
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