Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Hodder and Stoughton, 1912.
A new edition, with Rackham's illustrations interspersed with the text. 4to. Green cloth with gilt embossed decoration by Rackham. Fifty tipped-in colour illustrations by Rackham, under captioned tissue guards. Twenty two black and white drawings, including some full page illustrations and a map of Kensington Gardens. Plain endpapers. A near fine copy, bright and clean, with light spotting to page edges. Neat contemporary gift inscription.
J.M. Barrie's tale of Peter Pan was first published as a Christmas Gift book with colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Both the tale and the illustrations were a hit with the critics and public and have become very collectable.
A contemporary review of the book published in "The World" reads "Mr Barrie has done what no one else has done since the inventor of "Alice", he has invented a new legend, a modern folk story which comprehends all the innermost secrets of the modern child, be he four or forty. Mr Rackham, for his part, has been bewitched in his cradle: he does not dream of fairies or hobgoblins, he knows them."
Riall p 114.
Stock ID: 46560
