The smooth spine is decorated with Art Nouveau gilt decoration and circular amber morocco onlay. The upper cover is further decorated with an Art Nouveau design in gilt and two circular green morocco onlays, accentuated by gilt punched dots. Four further vellucent medallions to the corners depict hand painted animal characters from the story. A central vellucent panel depicts Peter Pan sitting in a branch, taken from illustration number 19, "Preposterus cried Soloman in a rage". Full brown morocco, with five inlaid vellucent panels, containing miniature watercolours reproducing Rackham's imagery painted on vellum. Finely bound by Cedric Chivers, c.1906, stamp signed to rear turn in. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens was not only the illustrator's first major book commission but is also distinguished by being the first edition of Barrie's juvenile classic.įirst edition. First edition de luxe, limited to only 500 numbered copies, signed in ink by Arthur Rackham to the limitation leaf. , vii-xii + 125 + + plates at rear with pictorial title-page, coloured frontispiece, and 49 additional fine, and exquisite, coloured plates by Rackham, all mounted-at-large on brown stock and guarded by captioned tissue-guards text printed on fine laid paper a lovely copy of a scarce book externally very good and sound with light overall dusting and soiling, and minor marking to spine internally uncommonly fresh with all plates and guards fine, and none of the usual spotting to text.
publisher's full white vellum decoratively gilt with lemon-yellow ties to fore-edge (replaced), lettered gilt to spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, buff endpapers with pictorial map printed in blue to front free endpaper pp.
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