Arthur Rackham SIEGFRIED & TWILIGHT OF THE GODS 1911 Wagner ILLUSTRATIONS ART
Item History & Price
Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods. By Richard Wagner. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Armour. Published in 1911 by William Heinemann of London. 1st Edition with Rackham's Illustrations. This is Volume II of The Ring of the Niblung set.
Condition: 30 tipped-in plates with labeled tissue-guards as called for in List of Illustrations. Rebinding copy. Spine cloth gone, boards loosening, and staining to bo...ards as pictured above. The interior is Very Good. Light foxing to endpapers and pages facing plates. One small stain in List of Illustrations. Plates tipped-in to sturdy cardboard backing. One tissue-guard missing. The cardboard backing is lightly toned. All plates in excellent condition. Pages tight and whole and again, overall very clean. 10" x 7 1/2" with 182 pages.
The Ring of the Nibelung is a total work of art on a par with works of world literature such as Homer’s Iliad or Dante’s Divina commedia. It is astonishing how homogeneous this work appears to us, which was created over a period of 25 years and in a complex process of development. Twilight of the Gods (Götterdämmerung) is an opera with grandiose images and concludes this work with a gigantic finale.
Condition: 30 tipped-in plates with labeled tissue-guards as called for in List of Illustrations. Rebinding copy. Spine cloth gone, boards loosening, and staining to bo...ards as pictured above. The interior is Very Good. Light foxing to endpapers and pages facing plates. One small stain in List of Illustrations. Plates tipped-in to sturdy cardboard backing. One tissue-guard missing. The cardboard backing is lightly toned. All plates in excellent condition. Pages tight and whole and again, overall very clean. 10" x 7 1/2" with 182 pages.
The Ring of the Nibelung is a total work of art on a par with works of world literature such as Homer’s Iliad or Dante’s Divina commedia. It is astonishing how homogeneous this work appears to us, which was created over a period of 25 years and in a complex process of development. Twilight of the Gods (Götterdämmerung) is an opera with grandiose images and concludes this work with a gigantic finale.
