The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie
By: by Richard Wagner ; with illustrations by Arthur Rackham ; translated by Margaret Armour
Contributors: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883; Armour, Margaret, translator; Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939, illustrator; Bayntun-Riviere (Bindery); Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: [Deluxe edition].
Series: The ring of the Niblung : a trilogy with a prelude by Richard Wagner / translated into English by Margaret Armour -- I
Publisher: William Heinemann; Doubleday Page & Co.
Published: 1910
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Other titles: Rhinegold.; Valkyrie.
Work titles: Ring des Nibelungen. Rheingold (Libretto)
Notes: Edition information from Riall.

"This Edition is limited to eleven hundred and fifty copies, numbered and signed by the artist, of which one hundred and fifty are reserved for the United States of America" -- series title-page verso.

Each colour plate mounted on brown paper and accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.

Rare Book copy 1: No. 91.

Rare Book copy 2: No. 210, signed by the illustrator Arthur Rackham.

Rare Book copy 2: Cased with: Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods / by Richard Wagner ; with illustrations by Arthur Rackham ; translated by Margaret Armour. London, 1911.

Riall, R. Arthur Rackham, p. 103-104

Latimore & Haskell. Arthur Rackham, p. 37

Hudson, D. Arthur Rackham, p. 169

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy 2: Bound in full black leather with gold-tooled borders and poppy flowers in red and green at corners of upper and lower covers; six-compartment spine with raised bands, decorated with poppy flowers in red and green and title, author, illustrator, and date in gilt; black leather inner joint with a separate pastedown of brown leather, gilt with flower centerpiece and border; wide turn-ins with elaborately gold-tooled borders; free endpapers lined with green moiré; gold-tooled board edges; gilt text edges; blue ribbon markers; signed "Bound by Bayntun (Riviere), Bath, England."
Table of contents: title: The Rhinegold : Prelude; title: The Valkyrie : First Day of the Trilogy.