Barrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and published by Hodder & Stoughton it is one of four major literary works by Barrie featuring the widely known literary character he created, Peter Pan.
The book: Beautiful Edition illustrated by Rackham of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens - a novel by J. Illustrations: Complete with the wonderful 16 color plates with captioned tissue guards by Arthur Rackham. Publisher: London, New York, Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, no date (circa 1920).īinding: Attractive and near fine binding elegantly bound in red half morocco leather over matching marbled paper sides (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover.Ĭontent: Very good content (bright, tight, light foxing or staining - as shown, original endpaper map bound at rear - as shown). All tissue guards are present and in fine condition, as are the plates.Ī heavy book so international shipping charges must be considered.Author: Sir James Matthew Barrie.
Internally it is very clean, unmarked (apart from a small neat signature at the top of the title page) and without foxing. There is some fraying at the extremes of the spine which is significantly faded/sunned. The binding is fairly worn with edge and corner wear and tender joints, the lower 10cms. In the original green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Widely considered to be the best and most desirable edition.
The book includes fifty full page, tipped in dramatic colour illustrations all with guard sheets printed with descriptive letterpress in the lower left corner, and twelve b&w drawings in the text. Although not dated, this is the 1912 Rackham edition which is a reprint of the 1906 edition but with the addition of a new colour frontispiece and seven new full page b&w drawings (Richard Riall Rackham bibliography 1994, pp.
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