Frontispiece, from Comus, 1921
Dedication Page, from Comus, 1921
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving (11 plates)
Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling (2 plates)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (2 plates)
The Ingoldsby Legends: or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby (2 plates)
A Midsummer-Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (10 plates)
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb (2 plates)
Undine by Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouque (2 plates)
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie (8 plates)
Aesop's Fables (3 plates)
Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures (15 plates)
Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes (2 plates)
English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steele (3 plates)
Some British Ballads by Francis James Child (et al) (4 plates)
Comus by John Milton (9 plates)
A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne (5 plates)
Through his extraordinarily drawn interpretations of favorite fairy tales and fantastic literature, Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) remains an enduring legend of the Victorian era's Golden Age of Illustration. Rackham took the printing developments of the early twentieth century further than any other artist of his time, masterfully manipulating the latest color processes. At once a technical and artistic genius, Rackham had few equals when it came to the use of muted color, ambience, and expressive lines.
This magnificent collection displays more than eighty of Arthur Rackham's most beguiling illustrations. These phantasmagoric renderings spring from such literary legends as Rip Van Winkle, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Aesop's Fables, Puck of Pook's Hill, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and A Wonder Book. From the loveliest fairy to the most grotesque goblin, Rackham's art captures the wonder, innocence, and adventure that forever stir the human heart.
A noted expert on the Classic Age of Illustration, Jeff A. Menges has also edited the Dover titles Rackham's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color, Dulac's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color, and Pirates, Patriots, and Princesses: The Art of Howard Pyle.