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James Matthew Barrie 1860 - 1937 : Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1906

Rebacked expertly saving the contemporary cloth upper board, upper board with title, baby on a goat, author’s name, and illustrators name in gilt. Flat spine in matching cloth, in five compartments of gilt bands and gilt motifs, title and author name in gilt on two, gilt date on five. , Very good condition, text and plates are clean and crisp., 4to, P. map, printer’s imprint, half-title, blank (2), frontis, contents, blank, title, copyright, dedication, blank, illustration list (4), 1-126, 49 plates., Contains fifty full page mounted color plates including frontis, and a map of Kensington Garden.

Peter Pan first appeared in a section of The Little White Bird, a 1902 novel written by Barrie for adults.Following the highly successful debut of the 1904 play, Barrie\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s publishers, Hodder and Stoughton, extracted chapters 13–18 of The Little White Bird and republished them in 1906 under the title Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, with the addition of illustrations by Arthur Rackham. This was the first edition to use Peter Pan in the title and as many suggest the definitive edition.

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