He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. Soiling on the edge of the boards and with ribbon tie missing. Original white velum boards with illustration of goat and baby on the board. Contains fifty tipped in coloured plates as listed. Numbered 442/500 and signed by the illustrator, Arthur Rackham with clean and complete contents. The author: Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM ( – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. An illustrated edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolor, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator. He is recognized as one of the leading literary figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. The illustrator: Arthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. Most of the text originally appeared as chapters 13–18 of Barrie's 1902 novel The Little White Bird. Barrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and published by Hodder & Stoughton it is one of four major literary works by Barrie featuring the widely known literary character he created, Peter Pan. The book: Beautiful Edition illustrated by Rackham of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens - a novel by J. Illustrations: Complete with the wonderful 16 color plates with captioned tissue guards by Arthur Rackham. Publisher: London, New York, Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, no date (circa 1920).īinding: Attractive and near fine binding elegantly bound in red half morocco leather over matching marbled paper sides (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover.Ĭontent: Very good content (bright, tight, light foxing or staining - as shown, original endpaper map bound at rear - as shown).
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