Arthur Rackham

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born

September 19, 1867 in London, The United Kingdom

died

September 06, 1939

gender

male

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Arthur Rackham was born in London as one of 12 children. At the age of 18, he worked as a clerk at the Westminster Fire Office and began studying part-time at the Lambeth School of Art.

In 1892, he quit his job and started working for The Westminster Budget as a reporter and illustrator. His first book illustrations were published in 1893 in To the Other Side by Thomas Rhodes, but his first serious commission was in 1894 for The Dolly Dialogues, the collected sketches of Anthony Hope, who later went on to write The Prisoner of Zenda. Book illustrating then became Rackham's career for the rest of his life.

In 1903, he married Edyth Starkie, with whom he had one daughter, Barbara, in 1908. Rackham won a gold medal at the Milan International Exh...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 3,717 ratings · 349 reviews · 116 distinct works

	The Arthur Rackham Treasury: 86 Full-Color Illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Jeff A. Menges (Editor) 4.49 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Rackham's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color by Arthur Rackham, Jeff A. Menges, Jeff Menges (Editor) 4.58 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Rackham's Color Illustrations for Wagner's "Ring" by Arthur Rackham, James Spero (Illustrator), Richard Wagner (Based On Work by) 4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1979	My rating:
	Arthur Rackham Fairy Book 4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1933 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Irish Fairy Tales 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Mother Goose: Old Nursery Rhymes 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie, Arthur Rackham (Illustrations) 3.83 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 1906 — 54 editions	My rating:
	Fairy Tales From Many Lands 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1916 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Aesop's Fables 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1988	My rating: