Well, these tricky fairies sometimes change the boards on a ball night, so it says that the Gardens are to close at six-thirty, for instance, instead of seven. 'You know the boards which tell at what time the Gardens are to close today. 'Peter Pan puts his strange case before old Solomon Caw.' OTHERWISE, YOU WILL RECEIVE THE PRINT THAT HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE BACKING PAPER. PLEASE REQUEST 'TIPPED' WHEN CHECKING OUT THROUGH THE SYSTEM OR EMAIL US AFTERWARDS. THE PRINT IS ALSO AVAILABLE STILL 'TIPPED' ONTO BACKING SHEET. SOME THINNING/CURLING TO BE EXPECTED ALONG TOP EDGE WHERE IT WAS ADHERED. REMNANT OF PAPER AND GLUE ON BACK OF PRINT, WHERE IT WAS ORIGINALLY 'TIPPED' ONTO A BACKING SHEET. IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 10.5 x 10.25 inches 'The fairies have their tiffs with the birds.' PRINT IS 'TIPPED' (GLUED ALONG TOP EDGE ONLY) TO THE BACKING SHEET, AS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 7.75 x 10.75 inches Six of them took the end of the string in their beaks and flew away with it, and to his amazement it flew after them and went even higher than they.' 'The bird showed Peter Pan how to fly a kite. (Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on the print.) The prints offered here are from a large vintage calendar printed in the mid 1970s to mid 1980s.Ĭlick the thumbnail image above for a view of the entire plate.

The color plates to Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by Arthur Rackham made the book immediately popular, and drew attention to Rackham, who was not well-known before then. The Peter Pan chapters were extracted and published as a separate work in 1906. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens was originally part of an earlier work, The Little White Bird by J.M. His original drawings and paintings are keenly sought at the major international art auction houses.

His images have been widely used by the greeting card industry and many of his books are still in print or have been recently available in both paperback and hardback editions. The onset of the war in 1914 curtailed the market for such quality books, and the public's taste for fantasy and fairies also declined in the 1920s.Īrthur Rackham's works have become very popular since his death, both in North America and Britain.

This was often followed by a more modestly presented octavo edition in subsequent years for particularly popular books. Many of Rackham's books were produced in a de luxe limited edition, often vellum bound and sometimes signed, as well as a larger, less ornately bound quarto 'trade' edition. During that period, there was a strong market for high quality illustrated books that typically were given as Christmas gifts. Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the 'Golden Age' of British book illustration which encompassed the years from 1900 until the start of the First World War.

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