The Wind in the Willows.
Introduction by A. A. Milne.
London: Methuen & Co., 1951 Stock Code: 107331
Limited edition, one of 500 copies with onlay of badger and mole to front
Deluxe edition, number 305 of 500 copies. This is the one-hundredth edition of Grahame's timeless classic, which was originally published in 1908, with just a frontispiece, by Graham Robertson. Rackham's illustrations for the text first appeared in the Limited Editions Club edition of 1940, and it was the last work he illustrated. "During his last illness Rackham worked on illustrations to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, a book for which he had a strong affection, and which he had longed for years to illustrate. The resulting pictures (the edition was published posthumously in 1940) are among his most affecting works, replete with wit, invention, and carefully controlled emotion" (ODNB).Description
Tall octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, pictorial onlay to front board, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, burgundy endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed.
Illustrations
With 12 mounted plates in colour and many line-drawings.
Condition
A fine copy.
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