A Dish of Apples
( Arthur RACKHAM ) PHILLPOTTS, Eden
With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. [First Trade Edition].
NEAR FINE COPY
Published: Hodder & Stoughton, [1921]
Stock code: 31046
Price: £364.00
Sm. 4to., First Edition thus, with mounted coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), large title-vignette, 2 fine mounted coloured plates (original tissue guards present), numerous line illustrations (7 full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original rose-grey cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in dark red, a near fine copy.
Published 'a few weeks' prior to the limited edition (Hinton). 'I am immensely pleased at the charm and originality of your most attractive drawings. The humour of them especially drew me.' (Phillpotts to Rackham, 24 September 1921: see Hudson p.118-9; ). Hinton, p.99; Hudson, p.170; Latimore & Haskell, p.54; Riall, p.144.