JONKERS RARE BOOKS
50. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens RACKHAM, Arthur; BARRIE, J.M. Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. First edition, deluxe issue, number 27 of 500 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Large 4to. Publisher’s full vellum with gilt lettering and decoration. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Endpaper with map of Kensington Gardens and fifty colour plates mounted onto brown art paper and pro- tected by captioned tissue guards. The plates for this version of Barrie’s tale are magnificent. A near fine copy, lacking ties, bright and clean. Housed in custom made clamshell box. [46378] £5,000 In 1902 J.M. Barrie wrote the novel “the Little White Bird”, the central chapters of which tell of a child named Peter Pan, “... who escaped from being a human when he was seven days old... and flew back to Kensing- ton Gardens.” This part of the story was then developed by Barrie and the first book to appear with the title of Peter Pan was this 1906 version to which Arthur Rackham provided 50 magnificent colour illustrations. A contemporary review of this 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.”.
51. Peter Pan And Wendy ATTWELL, Mabel Lucie; BARRIE, J.M.
Hodder & Stoughton, [1921]. First edition with illustrations by Mabel Lucie Attwell. 4to. Blue cloth with gilt titles on spine and upper cover. Both spine and upper cover have decorations in blue, green and gilt. Twelve colour plates mounted onto art pa- per with captions printed below, the image entitled “I daresay it will hurt a little” is made even more charming by being circular. In addition to the colour plates there are numerous line drawings in the text. A near fine copy. A neat gift inscription on the verso of the frontispiece. [46250] £650 The book has been reprinted in various formats with Attwell’s illustra- tions, but none are as sumptuous as the first edition of this wonderful gift book.
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