With Arthur Rackham's Superb Illustrations
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
A Superb Copy of His Most Famous Book
[Rackham, illus.] Barrie, J. M. PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908) A very early U.S. issue, retaining the exact format and look of the first issue and made from the English sheets. 50 tipped-in color plates bound in rear as issued, and with several line drawings by Arthur Rackham. 4to, publisher's original green cloth lettered and decorated pictorially in gilt on the upper cover and spine. 126. A pristine copy, among the best we've seen, without any flaws. An absolutely superb copy and extremely unusual as such.
A superb and extremely well preserved copy of Rackham's most famous book. Within, we find many of the artist's best loved and most easily recognized paintings, masterfully reproduced and bound in the rear and as identical to the first British issue of 1906.
Perhaps the Pall Mall Gazette summed it best when they said, "Mr. Rackham seems to have dropped out of some cloud in Mr. Barrie's fairyland, sent by a special providence to make pictures in tune with his whimsical genius."
All of the early issues in the original format of this title are becoming hard to find, this copy is noteworthy for its fine state of preservation. |
