Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens Illustrated By Arthur Rackham: Advance Copy

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, UK. Date: 1912. New edition. Original green cloth, richly gilt. Decorated endpapers. Top edge gilt. Size: 23.5cm x 28.5cm. Pp. xvi + 126. Includes 50 tissue-guarded, tipped-in colour plates and 7 full-page line drawings by Arthur Rackham. The best edition with the plates interleaved within the text. Cloth slightly faded but gilt very bright indeed with only very minor creasing. Binding very tight. Pages nice and clean with only very slight darkening to the endpapers. Illustrations very bright and clean and with no creases or damage. Rear board stamped ‘Advance Copy’ to the base. This is the first pre-publication copy that we have handled. A fine copy overall. Scarce thus.