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Title
Twenty-two original drawings
Additional title: 22 original drawings
Names
Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939 (Artist)
Bayntun, George, 1873-1940 (Binder)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1921
Place: London?
Publisher: not identified
Table of Contents
[1]. Peter Pan. "My Lord Duke ..." -- [2]. The Ingoldsby legends. "The dead drummer" -- [3]. Midsummer-night's dream. "O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted ..." -- [4]. Gulliver's travels. "Gulliver is stuck..." -- [5]. Grimm's fairy tales. "The Young Count and the Fishes" -- [6]. Lamb's Tales. "Ophelia" -- [7]. Aesop's Fables. "King Log" -- [8]. Mother Goose. "A Carrion Crow sat on an oak" -- [9]. Milton's "Comus". "Sabrina Rises" -- [10]. Dickens' Christmas carol. " Scrooge Dreams"-- [11]. Allies' fairy book. "Gulash" -- [12]. Allies' fairy book. " The Welsh Story" -- [13]. Allies' fairy book. "Jack the Giant Killer" -- [14]. Allies' fairy book. " The Scottish Story..." -- [15]. Rip van Winkle. "These Fairy Mountains"-- [16]. Grimm's Little Brother and Little Sister. "Instantly they lay still ..." -- [17]. Cinderella. "Two Drawings for Cinderella" -- [18]. Cinderella. "Design for Cover of Cinderella" -- [19]. Irish fairy tales. "The Carl of the drab coat " -- [20]. Irish fairy tales. "Filled with Savagery and Terror" -- [21]. The sleeping beauty. "Frontispiece" -- [22]. Poems by Eden Phillpotts. "Dish of Apples".
Library locations
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: Spencer Coll. Eng. 1921
Topics
Drawing, British
Drawings, original -- Rackham
Bindings, 20th cent., British -- Bayntun
Genres
Books
Drawings
Notes
Content: Arthur Rackham drawings [1906-1921]
Content: Each drawing except one (Cinderella) has a separate signed caption in the artist's autograph.
Content: The Spencer Collection holds copies of thirteen of the seventeen London editions for which these illustrations were made: Barrie, Sir J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, 1906.--Barham, R. H. The Ingoldsby legends. Dent, 1907.--Grimm, J. L. K. The fairy tales. Constable, 1909.--Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's travels. Dent, 1909.--Aesop. English. 1912. Aesop's fables. Heinemann, 1912.--Mother Goose. Mother Goose. Heinemann, 1913.--The Allies' fairy book. Heinemann [1916]--Grimm, J. L. K. Little brother & little sister. Constable [1917]--Cinderella. Cinderella; retold by C. S. Evans. Heinemann [1919]--The sleeping beauty. The sleeping beauty; told by C. S. Evans. Heinemann [1920]--Stephens, James. Irish fairy tales. Macmillan, 1920.--Milton, John. Poems, Minor. Comus. 1921. Comus. Heinemann [1921]--Phillpotts, Eden. A dish of apples. Hodder & Stoughton [1921].
Content: Most of the editions are represented by one original drawing, the Allies' fairy book by four, Cinderella and the Irish fairy tales each by two. Drawings are also present for the Midsummer-night's dream (1908), Lamb's Tales (1909), Dickens' Christmas carol (1915) and Rip van Winkle (1916).
Content: Binding, by Bayntum of Bath, England, of blue morocco, gilt.
Content: Issued in a handmade, blue cloth-covered clamshell box.
Physical Description
Pen and ink drawings
Watercolors
Extent: 1 volume (22 pen and ink drawings with watercolour) : color Illustrations ; 47cm.
Type of Resource
Text
Still image
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 131732598
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16833004
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 13.02.245
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 20.01.CHILD36_r4
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 20.01.CHILD36_r5
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a74ec710-9bca-013d-6b0d-0242ac110003
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1867: Creator Born
  • 1921: Issued
  • 1939: Creator Died
  • 2025: Digitized
  • 2026: Found by you!
  • 2027

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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Twenty-two original drawings " The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1921. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/940797c0-7a0c-0130-f9a2-58d385a7b928

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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Twenty-two original drawings " New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 25, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/940797c0-7a0c-0130-f9a2-58d385a7b928

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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1921). Twenty-two original drawings Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/940797c0-7a0c-0130-f9a2-58d385a7b928

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Twenty-two original drawings