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ONE OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY RACKHAM RACKHAM, Arthur; BARRIE, J.M. PETER PAN IN KENSING- TON GARDENS Hodder & Stoughton, 1906 [46378] First edition. Edition de Luxe, number 27 of 500 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Large 4to. Full white 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 pa - per and protected 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 clam- shell box. $7,000 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 Kensington 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 “Al - ice”, he has invented a new legend, a modern folk story which compre - hends 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.”
ham. Finely bound for the publisher in full crimson levant morocco by Sangor - ski and Sutcliffe, with raised bands to the spine and Rackham designed piscatorial vignettes to spine compartments and the corners of each cover. Marbled endpa - pers, top edge gilt others uncut. Signed by Rackham on the limitation page and
opposite is a fine original drawing in ink, watercolour and wash, depicting Walton sitting down in an inn, about to be served his fish supper by a barmaid. Twelve colour plates under captioned tissue guards and numerous black and white drawings. A fine copy, bright and crisp with the binding exceptionally well pre- served. $31,500 This book is one of nine or ten copies of an extra special edition, which is finely bound and contains a unique original watercolour. Copies of Rackham’s books with original watercolours rarely come onto the mar- ket nowadays.
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