and one of Arthur Rackhams finest Barrie suites of illustrations (50 tipped-in, tissue-guarded plates). There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. 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. One of the great illustrated books of the 20th C. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM ( / bri / 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. You see, when you went away your mother had none, but my mother has Tony, and surely they are satisfied when they have one. , 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. Like Maimie said aghast, ‘I can’t believe it. 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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