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Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie. By Richard Wagner Translated by Margaret Armour, 1st edition thus, trade issue, London: William Heinemann, 1910, 34 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, strip of offsetting from adhesive to text-leaf following each plate, occasional spotting, original tan pictorial cloth gilt, light fraying to head of spine, a few marks, 4to, together with: Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods. By Richard Wagner Translated by Margaret Armour, 1st edition thus, trade issue, London: William Heinemann, 1911, 30 tipped-in colour plates, strip of offsetting from adhesive to text-leaf following each plate, occasional spotting, original tan pictorial cloth gilt, spine faded, light cockling to rear cover, 4to, Book of Pictures. With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, 1st edition, trade issue, London: William Heinemann, 1913, 44 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, free endpapers browned, ownership inscription (Cecil Rice to front free endpaper, original grey pictorial cloth gilt, front board bowed, continuous dent in fore edges of both boards and of text-block, 4to, Little Brother and Little Sister. And Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm, 1st edition thus, London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1917, 12 tipped-in colour plates, free endpapers browned, ownership inscription (Cecil Rice to half-title, original green pictorial cloth gilt, 4to, and 2 others, including T. C. Porter, Impressions of America, 1st edition, 1899, stereoscopic halftone plates from photographs, wood-framed viewing glasses in end-pocket, ownership inscription of David Talbot Rice dated March 1921 to front free endpaper, original two-tone cloth, ties lacking, 8vo, number 28 of 150 copies signed by the author (Qty: 6) Provenance: David Talbot Rice (1903-1972), English archaeologist and historian; thence by descent. Latimore & Haskell pp. 36-7 (Rhinegold, Siegfried), 42 (Book of Pictures), 47 (Little Brother).