Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
Dark olive green cloth covers with lovely gilt decoration to the front upper and gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo. Green endpapers illustrated with a map of Kensington Gardens. Twenty four colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham, all with captioned tissue guards. A very good copy, some general light wear.
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."
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