Rebound in full morocco by the distinguished bookbinder Bryan Cantle
Publisher and Year: London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. (1910)
Edition: Early edition. The first edition of Arthur Rackham's illustrations appeared in 1906. This edition was published in the late fall of 1910 and was advertised as a gift book for the Christmas season.
Condition and Description: Octavo (~8.5" x 6"), rebound in the twentieth century in full brown morocco leather hand-tooled in blind and gilt, hubbed spine with five compartments, plain edges. Marbled endpapers. 126 pp. Twenty-four color plates with captioned tissue guards. Rear turn-in stamped "B. Cantle." Firmly bound. A few handling marks to the boards. Bright gilt. Mild foxing to the edges of the text block and interior pages, most prominently to the preliminary and terminal leaves. Faint remnant of tiny pencil mark to the top-right corner of some leaves and the plates, almost certainly from the binder to ensure proper placement of the pages. No ownership markings. Three plates have wear to margins, not affecting the illustrations. Housed in a felt-lined clamshell case with a leather label (a few handling marks and smudges).
Binder:Bryan Cantle apprenticed under the celebrated binder and conservator Douglas Cockerell. Dorothy A. Harrop, in her history of the Cockerell workshop, identified him among the bindery's notable successors, reflecting his standing within the profession. After completing his training, Cantle worked at the Eddington Bindery before establishing his own bindery in 1978. That same year he was elected a Fellow of the organization Designer Bookbinders, one of the highest professional distinctions available to British designer binders
“It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing known for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.”
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens offers the first self-contained account of Peter’s beginnings. The book follows a newborn child who slips out of his nursery and enters Kensington Gardens after closing time. Barrie treats the park as a second landscape, one that becomes fully visible only to children, and he uses that setting to explore independence, vulnerability, and the limits of early imagination. The book reflects Edwardian interest in childhood interiority, which marked a departure from Victorian moral tales. Its reception was strong, and the 1906 volume became a prominent Christmas gift book.
The Bookman, 1910 (October), Volume 39, p. 10. This edition listed under, "Forthcoming books. October 1 to November 1, 1910."
Inventory ID: 015 - 186 - 623
Rebound in full morocco by the distinguished bookbinder Bryan Cantle
Publisher and Year: London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. (1910)
Edition: Early edition. The first edition of Arthur Rackham's illustrations appeared in 1906. This edition was published in the late fall of 1910 and was advertised as a gift book for the Christmas season.
Condition and Description: Octavo (~8.5" x 6"), rebound in the twentieth century in full brown morocco leather hand-tooled in blind and gilt, hubbed spine with five compartments, plain edges. Marbled endpapers. 126 pp. Twenty-four color plates with captioned tissue guards. Rear turn-in stamped "B. Cantle." Firmly bound. A few handling marks to the boards. Bright gilt. Mild foxing to the edges of the text block and interior pages, most prominently to the preliminary and terminal leaves. Faint remnant of tiny pencil mark to the top-right corner of some leaves and the plates, almost certainly from the binder to ensure proper placement of the pages. No ownership markings. Three plates have wear to margins, not affecting the illustrations. Housed in a felt-lined clamshell case with a leather label (a few handling marks and smudges).
Binder:Bryan Cantle apprenticed under the celebrated binder and conservator Douglas Cockerell. Dorothy A. Harrop, in her history of the Cockerell workshop, identified him among the bindery's notable successors, reflecting his standing within the profession. After completing his training, Cantle worked at the Eddington Bindery before establishing his own bindery in 1978. That same year he was elected a Fellow of the organization Designer Bookbinders, one of the highest professional distinctions available to British designer binders
“It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing known for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.”
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens offers the first self-contained account of Peter’s beginnings. The book follows a newborn child who slips out of his nursery and enters Kensington Gardens after closing time. Barrie treats the park as a second landscape, one that becomes fully visible only to children, and he uses that setting to explore independence, vulnerability, and the limits of early imagination. The book reflects Edwardian interest in childhood interiority, which marked a departure from Victorian moral tales. Its reception was strong, and the 1906 volume became a prominent Christmas gift book.
The Bookman, 1910 (October), Volume 39, p. 10. This edition listed under, "Forthcoming books. October 1 to November 1, 1910."
Inventory ID: 015 - 186 - 623
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