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Gardens. Plain endpapers. A near fine copy, bright and clean, with light spotting to page edges. Neat contemporary gift inscription. [46560] £750 J.M. Barrie’s tale of Peter Pan was first pub- lished as a Christmas Gift book with colour illus- trations 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 “Al- ice”, he has invented a new legend, a modern folk story which comprehends all the innermost se- crets 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.” Riall p 114.
30. RACKHAM, Arthur THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Kenneth Grahame. Introduc- tion by A.A. Milne. Methuen, 1960. A reprint of the Arthur Rackham illustrated edition. Finely bound in full polished tan calf by Frost & Co. of Bath bindery signature to verso of the front free endpapers, gilt ruled borders to boards and gilt dentelles to turn ins and edges, raised bands to spine with two morocco title labels and four gilt floral vignettes. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece under tissue guard and eleven
full page colour plates. A fine copy. [46483] £650 Kenneth Grahame asked Rackham to illustrate the first edition of his book, but 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 in- spired her husband to write the tale. Arthur Rackham’s illustra- tions of trees have always been amongst his most striking and memorable, and the ones he draws here for the Thames-side tale are no different.
32. RACKHAM, Arthur; DICKENS, Charles A CHRISTMAS CAROL Heinemann, 1915.
First Rackham edition. 8vo. Original purple cloth with titles and decoration in gilt. Top edge black. Pictorial endpapers, twelve full page colour plates and various line drawings in the text. A very good copy indeed, spine gilt tarnished, internally occasion- al marks. [46562] £450 Rackham’s illustrations for A Christmas Carol were “decidedly suc-
31. RACKHAM, Arthur; BARRIE, J.M. PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GAR- DENS Hodder and Stoughton, [c.1912]. A new edition, with Rackham’s illus- trations interspersed with the text. 4to. Green cloth with gilt embossed decora- tion by Rackham. Fifty tipped-in colour il- lustrations by Rackham, under captioned tissue guards. Twenty two black and white drawings, including some full page illustrations and a map of Kensington
cessful, for he contrived to adapt the tradition of ‘Phiz’ and Cruikshank to his own characteristic style in the pictures of Victorian London and at the same time found scope for his fantasy in the ghost scenes. We also find him here developing his special talent for silhouette, rare among il- lustrators” [Hudson, p106].
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