The Peter Pan Portfolio
Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
First edition, number 596 of limited edition of 600 copies, signed by the publisher and engraver on the limitation page, this copy one of a special issue of approximately 100 copies bound in full vellum. Elephant folio (19 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches). Publisher's full vellum with gilt titles to upper cover. Housed in publisher's original cloth box with printed paper onlay. Twelve large full size plates mounted with gilt ruled borders and captioned tissue guards by Rackham. A very good copy indeed, lacking ties as usual but uncommonly bright and clean, with some vertical creases to the text leaves and some slight foxing to some mounts, but with plates remaining bright and uncreased. The original box is clean and attractive, lacking a side panel to lower section.
The portfolio is without doubt, Rackham's grandest production and one of the rarest and most beautiful books of its type.
Rackham's plates for Peter Pan originally appeared in 1906 in the form of a gift book with fifty Rackham plates. Partly to capitalise on the success of the stage production of Peter & Wendy, Hodder asked Rackham to select his favourite twelve of the fifty images in the 1906 Peter Pan to produce a collector's portfolio of plates. These plates were re-engraved to be the size of the original watercolours and produced to an extremely fine standard.
Stock ID: 46103
£12,500.00
