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Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, UK. Date: 1912. New edition. Original green cloth, richly gilt. Decorated endpapers. Top edge gilt. Size: 23.5cm x 28.5cm. Pp. xvi + 126. Includes 50 tissue-guarded, tipped-in colour plates and 7 full-page line drawings by Arthur Rackham. The best edition with the plates interleaved within the text. Cloth slightly faded but gilt very bright indeed with only very minor creasing. Binding very tight. Pages nice and clean with only very slight darkening to the endpapers. Illustrations very bright and clean and with no creases or damage. Rear board stamped 'Advance Copy' to the base. This is the first pre-publication copy that we have handled. A fine copy overall. Scarce thus.

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is one of J.M. Barrie's works that features the character Peter Pan, offering a backstory to the beloved 'boy who wouldn't grow up.' Originally part of Barrie's book 'The Little White Bird' (1902), these chapters were later republished as a stand-alone story detailing Peter's adventures in London's famous Kensington Gardens. It's a tale of fantasy that explores themes of childhood innocence and escapism.