The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie

First trade edition (preceded in the same year by a vellum-bound signed, limited edition).  180pp, 36 tipped in colour plates, all with captioned tissue-guards.  Brown buckram cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration front and spine.  Illustrated endpapers.  Top text block edge sprayed brown.   Large 8vo.  Cloth a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine tips.  Text block edges dull.  Previous owner’s name neatly inked on first true leaf, dated 1910.  A little toning  else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original dust wrapper, now toned and chapped arpnd edges, sunned over spine.  Dust wrapper now protected in an archival-quality Mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.

The text, in English, of Wagner’s works complimented by stunning illustrations by Arthur Rackahm.  Originally issued with a companion volume, not included here.