The Knave of Hearts, 1925, Scribner’s, 1st Folio Edition, Illus. By Maxwell Parrish Book

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Illustrated throughout with full color plate illustrations. Original black cloth with color pictorial label on front cover. Color pictorial endpapers. … Read more Illustrated throughout with full color plate illustrations. Original black cloth with color pictorial label on front cover. Color pictorial endpapers. “Not until 1920 did [Parrish] agree to illustrate what was to become one of the most valuable childrens books ever published, Louise Saunder’s Knave of Hearts. Saunders was the wife of Maxwell Perkins, the editor of Scribners. They summered in Cornish, New Hampshire, and were friends with the Parrishes. In a letter to J.H. Chapin of Scribners, Parrish wrote on October 24, 1920: . Imagination could run riot, not bound down by the period, just good fun and all sorts of things. You must understand all this layout to be in gorgeous color. The landscapes back of the figures in the cover lining a beautiful affair illuminated by a golden late afternoon sun: castles, waterfall, rocks and mountains. Parrish relished working three years on the twenty-six paintings for Knave of Hearts. He built an elaborate castle model in his fully equipped workroom to use in the illustrations for the book. Many of the fixtures in the illustrations show handcrafted items from the Parrish household, such as elaborate hinges and a wonderful clocklike affair that Parrish had built to let him know when the main house ran out of well water. Knave of Hearts, published in October 1925, was printed in rich colors on heavy coated paper. The illustrations were the highest quality reproductions that could be printed" See less