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BARRIE, J. M.; RACKHAM, Arthur (llustrator).

Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens.

From Little White Bird. A New Edition.

Stock Code
106917
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912
£1,250

Arthur Rackham's illustrations for Peter Pan were first published in 1906. However this 'New' edition has the advantage of having the illustrations staggered throughout, as the story unfolds, rather than bound altogether at the rear, as well as the addition of a further seven black & white plates not featured in the original, a new colour frontispiece illustration of the eponymous Peter, dated 1912, as well as new typesetting and design for the pictorial title-page. Aesthetically, this edition is often preferred to the 1906 edition and this copy is rare in retaining its dust-jacket.

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Description

First edition thus; 4to (280 x 230 mm); fifty mounted coloured plates with captioned tissue-guards including tipped-in frontispiece (lacking one tissue-guard to illustration opposite p. 38), a further seven black & white plates and 12 black & white illustrations within text, neat gift inscription to blank second front, free endpaper, slight toning to margins of text leaves, else very good; publisher's green cloth gilt, faded and worn, more so to the spine, mild mottling to endpapers, printed dust-jacket, spine darkened, lightly dust-soiled and chipped with losses to spine extremities but otherwise sound.

Bibliography

Latimore & Haskell p. 40.

Stock ID:106917

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