Description
The first edition, first impression of The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie by Richard Wagner, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Armour.
Quarto, 159pp, [1]. Light brown cloth, title and illustrations in gilt on cover and spine. Top edge dyed brown. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 33 photo-offset lithographs on white wove paper, tipped in on brown wove paper, all with tissue covers. Includes the laid-in Arthur Rackham Exhibition notice. Lacking the publisher’s dust jacket. Light shelf wear, solid text block. Period gift inscription on second free endpaper.
Original title of this composition by Richard Wager in German was Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of Nibelung), a collection of four German language music dramas. The four parts include: Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Siegfried and Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods).
