NMLP P-002564 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

Rip Van Winkle (text by Washington Irving)

Arthur Rackham · London: William Heinemann (with simultaneous US issue by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York) · 1905

This was the first book wholly illustrated by Rackham to be issued in a signed limited edition and the title that established him as the pre-eminent Edwardian colour gift-book illustrator; the 250-copy limitation is small and desirable (one of his earliest and smaller limitations), though not the very smallest of his career

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-002564 for "Rip Van Winkle (text by Washington Irving)" by Arthur Rackham (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-002564, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).