Barrie, 1906 by Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939) Private Collection English, out of copyright Bring high quality wall art into your home or office with a canvas print that will never warp or sag. It is the manuscript of the latter, one of the jewels of the Berg Collection in the New York Public Library, which is reproduced here for the first time.
ECD14284 'Fairies in Kensington Gardens' from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M.Mr Rackham, for his part, has been bewitched in his cradle: he does not dream of fairies or hobgoblins, he knows them. The huge success of the play encouraged Barrie to create two children’s stories based on it: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906) and Peter and Wendy (1911). The first book to appear with the title of Peter Pan was this 1906 version to which Arthur Rackham provided 50 magnificent colour illustrations.Ī contemporary review of this book published in The World reads: ‘Mr Barrie has done what no one else has done since the inventor of ‘Alice’ he has invented a new legend, a modern folk story which comprehends all the innermost secrets of the modern child, be he four or forty. Barrie wrote the novel The Little White Bird the central chapters of which tell of a child named Peter Pan who escaped from being a human when he was seven days old and flew back to Kensington Gardens. Barrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, originally published in 1906. Light wear to spine & edges, contents in nice bright condition.Ĭolour frontispiece and 49 colour plates mounted at the end of the text (as called for in the first issue) by Arthur Rackham. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is a novel by J. Map of Kensington Gardens on the front free endpaper. Russet cloth with gilt titles and vignettes.
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