![]() ![]() Rackham seems to have dropped out of some cloud in Mr. "The 50 color plates were unanimously praised by all who saw them. From these stories came the 'Peter Pan' chapters in The Little White Bird, afterwards re-issued with Arthur Rackham illustrations as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" (Carpenter, 177). According to these stories Peter, like all babies, had once been a bird and could still fly out of his nursery window and back to Kensington Gardens, because his mother had forgotten to weigh him at birth. The character's first name "came from Peter Llewelyn Davies, who when still a baby became the subject of stories told by Barrie to. Peter Pan wasn't always the boy from Never Land who lost his shadow and fought Captain Hook. Signed limited first separate edition, number 9 of only 500 copies signed by Rackham, with 50 mounted color illustrations. ![]() Quarto, original full pictorial vellum gilt, cartographic front endpaper, top edge gilt, uncut custom slipcase. "HIS ACKNOWLEDGED MASTERPIECE": THE HIGHLY PRIZED PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS, ILLUSTRATED AND SIGNED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM ![]()
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