Rackham's 51 colour pieces for the Early American tale became a turning point in the production of books since – through colour-separated printing – it featured the accurate reproduction of colour artwork. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator. He is recognised 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 Frist octavo Edition illustrated by Rackham of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens - a novel by J. Illustrations: Complete with the wonderful 24 color plates with captioned tissue guards by Arthur Rackham. A beautiful binding!Ĭontent: Good content (bright, tight light foxing and staining - as shown, small chip to lower corner of one plate without affecting the image - as shown). First thus.īinding: Attractive and fine binding elegantly bound in green half morocco leather over matching marbled paper sides (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover. Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton, no date(circa 1910). With Twenty-Four Drawings by Arthur Rackham.

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