Title: THE SLEEPING | BEAUTY | TOLD BY C S EVANS | AND ILLUSTRATED BY | ARTHUR RACKHAM | LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN | PHILADELPHIA J B LIPPINCOTT Co ||
T.p. verso: LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1920.
Pagination: [1, 2] – h.t. / advert., [3, 4] – “WH” publisher’s device / frontis., [5, 6] – pictorial t.p. / publisher, year, [7, 8] – silhouette girls / Briar rose w/pasted offset ill., [9] 10-110 [2] – imprint / blank].
Collation: 8vo; B-G8, 3 double-leaf 3-colour woodcut illustrations extraneous to collation, in-text woodcuts.
Illustrations: 25 full-page silhouettes, comprising 9 in colour (frontispiece and 4 double plates)–and 16 in black (including 4 double illustrations); one mounted coloured plate; silhouette head- and tailpieces and other silhouettes throughout the text, in black.
Binding: Quarter cloth with black lettering, pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers.
Size: 26 x 19.5.
1st edition.
Inscription to h.t.: “To Dear Julia, Xmas 1947.”
