Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.: From The Little White Bird.

London: Hodder & Stoughton,, [1912]. Arthur Rackham at his best Best Rackham edition, originally published in 1906. This edition is enlarged with a new frontispiece and seven full-page drawings that are not in the first edition. The plates were bound in sequence with the story for the first time. "Mr Barrie's touch of fantasy, homely but eerie too, is admirably reflected. Moreover, the pictures are simple, and are clearly and firmly drawn" (Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art). "The delightful colour and black-and-white illustrations are Arthur Rackham at his best, and, perhaps, no other artist could have been so happy in his results... Mr Rackham's work is such that one is always finding charming little unexpected surprises in out-of-the-way corners of his pictures. These illustrations are not to be merely glanced at, but carefully studied to derive the full amount of pleasure from them" (The Bystander). Quarto. Finely bound in full green morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, front cover decorated in gilt, floral dentelles in gilt, marbled endpaers, gilt edges. Colour frontispiece and 49 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Minor scratch to rear cover, minor splitting to front hinge, slight browning to free endpapers: a near-fine copy. The Bystander, 4 December 1912, p. 550; Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 8 December 1912, Supplement, p. iv.