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and five of the coloured illustrations appeared first in the 1906 edition.
American Edition: This edition is the same as the English edition, but published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York.
1931
THE NIGHT/BEFORE CHRISTMAS/BY CLEMENT C. MOORE, L.L.D./[drawing]/ILLUSTRATED BY/ARTHUR RACKHAM/[drawing]/LONDON/GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO., LTD. [1931].
Bound in limp vellum with gold lettering on the cover and gilt top. 35 numbered pages, 5¾×9. Four full-page illustrations in colour and seventeen drawings in black and white; also pictorial end-papers in red and white. This edition is limited to 275 copies for England, and 275 copies for America, all signed by the artist.
There is a trade edition bound in pictorial wrappers with the same number of illustrations and the same pictorial end-papers. Size of page, 5¾×8⅝.
American Edition: Bound in green cloth with a pictorial panel on the cover, lettering on the panel in green. This edition was published by J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia.
THE COMPLEAT/ANGLER/OR/THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN’S/RECREATION/BEING A DISCOURSE OF RIVERS/FISHPONDS, FISH AND FISHING/NOT UNWORTHY THE PERUSAL/OF MOST ANGLERS/BY IZAAK WALTON/[drawing]/ILLUSTRATED/BY ARTHUR RACKHAM/LONDON: GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. LTD. [1931].
Bound in vellum with gold lettering on the cover and spine and gilt top. 223 numbered pages, 7¾×10¼. There are twelve full-page illustrations in colour and twenty-five drawings in black and white, also pictorial end-papers in brown and white. This edition is limited to 775 copies, signed by the artist.
