(Spine slightly faded, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, boards slightly bowed, upper hinge cracking). (A few light spots and marks.) Original russet-brown cloth gilt, upper board lettered in gilt and with design after Rackham, spine lettered in gilt, dark-brown endpapers, front free endpaper with ‘Map of Peter Pan’s Kensington Gardens’ after Rackham, all edges brown.
Wood-engraved vignette and further decoration on title, and 2 wood-engraved illustrations and one letterpress diagram in the text, all after Rackham. Colour-printed frontispiece and 49 colour-printed plates after Rackham, all mounted on dark-brown paper and with tissue guards bearing printed captions. (From ‘The Little White Bird’) … Third Edition. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens was not only the illustrator's first major book commission but is also distinguished by being the first edition of Barrie's juvenile classic.BARRIE, Sir James Matthew, 1st Bt, and Arthur RACKHAM (artist). , vii-xii + 125 + + plates at rear with pictorial title-page, coloured frontispiece, and 49 additional fine, and exquisite, coloured plates by Rackham, all mounted-at-large on brown stock and guarded by captioned tissue-guards text printed on fine laid paper a lovely copy of a scarce book externally very good and sound with light overall dusting and soiling, and minor marking to spine internally uncommonly fresh with all plates and guards fine, and none of the usual spotting to text.įirst edition de luxe, limited to only 500 numbered copies, signed in ink by Arthur Rackham to the limitation leaf.
publisher's full white vellum decoratively gilt with lemon-yellow ties to fore-edge (replaced), lettered gilt to spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, buff endpapers with pictorial map printed in blue to front free endpaper pp.
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