Some Ephemera with designs by Arthur Rackham
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Coloured drawings for Colgate’s Cashmere Bouquet Soap, used in Ladies’ Home Journal, Pictorial Review, Vogue, Asia and Good Housekeeping in 1923–5 and incorporated into window-display stands.
Black-and-white drawing for Eno’s Fruit Salts, used in Punch, 11th July 1928.
Coloured drawing for Cadbury’s Chocolates, used on chocolate-box lids, 1933.
BOOKPLATES.
Arthur Rackham. (For his own set of the books he illustrated.)
Barbara Mary Rackham. (For his daughter.)
G. L. Lazarus. (Commissioned by a collector.)
Robert Partridge. (Commissioned by a collector.)
CATALOGUES.
The Illustrations of Arthur Rackham. Heinemann (c. 1910). (A folded leaflet advertising six books.)
The North Wall. Argus Book Shop, Chicago. Fall, 1933.
The Best Books of the Season 1933–4. Simpkin Marshall, Ltd (1933).
The Best Books of the Season 1935–6. Simpkin Marshall, Ltd (1935).
Costume Through the Ages; a series of six water-colour drawings. Maggs Bros., Ltd (1938).
Catalogue of the Arthur Rackham Memorial Exhibition. Leicester Galleries. December 1939.
(There have been numerous exhibitions of Rackham’s drawings, for most of which unillustrated catalogues were issued. Notable exhibitions were held at the Leicester Galleries, London, in 1905, 1906, 1908, 1935 and 1939; at Scott and Fowles’, New York, in 1919, 1920, 1922 and 1927; and at Columbia University, New York, in 1956–7.)
CHRISTMAS CARDS.
Arthur Rackham frequently used personal greetings cards either specially designed by him or incorporating a design made for one of his books. Greetings cards for the following years are known:
1900, 1906, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1926, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934.
Private greetings cards with designs by Arthur Rackham were produced for Sir George Savage and his family at Christmas 1910, 1911, 1912 and three unspecified years.
A Christmas brochure produced in U.S.A. for Mr and Mrs John Barry Ryan, in 1932, has a coloured illustration by Rackham mounted on the front wrapper.
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