Rackham was born at 210 South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall, London as one of 12 children. His best-known works also include the illustrations for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Rackham's 51 colour pieces for the early American tale Rip Van Winkle 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 figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. N° de ref.One of Rackham's illustrations to Das Rheingold, 1910, depicting Fasolt and Fafner seizing FreiaĪrthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. Brilliantly capturing the landscape of the gardens, with their broad tree-lined avenues, shimmering lakes and romantic glades, Rackham fills this Arcadia with a dazzling array of fairies and spirits, who dance on spiders' webs, argue with the birds and make mischief with the park signs. The twelve colour plates in this facsimile edition, together with the black-and-white line drawings, are among Rackham's finest and a reminder of why the Edwardian years were the golden age of book illustration. After the phenomenal success of the stage version, in which Barrie introduced the characters and settings we know so well today, Hodder and Stoughton commissioned Arthur Rackham in 1905 to illustrate a special gift edition of the original stories.

Barrie (1860-1937) to preserve the memory of a younger brother who had died as a child. Peter Pan was created by the novelist and playwright J. But it was by no means a simple matter for Peter to resume life as a bird and, as is pointed out to him early on by Solomon Caw, his destiny is to be a 'Betwixt-and Between' From being trapped on the island in the Serpentine and escaping in a boat made out of a bird's nest, to learning the ways of the fairies whose best trick is to pretend to be something else, usually a flower Peter Pan's adventures in the enchanted world of 'the little people' are where the legend began. All babies, having been birds before they were humans, were 'a little wild during the first few weeks, and very itchy about the shoulders, where their wings used to be' But, unlike other babies, Peter decided to escape and flew away over the rooftops back to Kensington Gardens. Before the time of Wendy, Tinker Bell and Captain Hook, before even Never-Never Land itself, Peter Pan was an ordinary baby. With 12 colour plates and 22 b&w line drawings by Arthur Rackham Preface by David Wootton.

A modern reproduction of the 1912 original. In decorative green cloth covers with gilt to spine and front.

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