The Wind in the Willows
Methuen, 1950.
First U.K. edition illustrated by Rackham. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt titles on the spine, in pictorial dustwrapper. Introduction by A.A. Milne. Twelve colour plates and fifteen illustrations in line. A fine book in a near fine dustwrapper, which is extremely crisp with a faded spine.
Kenneth Grahame himself originally asked Arthur Rackham to illustrate his book, but at that time it could not be managed, and it was not until many years later that Rackham was able to take on the task. By this time the author had died. His widow accompanied Arthur Rackham to some of the spots on the Thames which had inspired her husband to write the tale. Arthur Rackham's illustrations of trees have always been amongst his most striking and memorable, the ones he draws here for the Thames-side tale are no different.
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