![]() Available as a print and as stationery cards. ![]() Available as a print and as stationery cards.Ī year later, Rackham would revolutionize the technology and economics of book art with his Alice in Wonderland illustrations Peter Pan became the R&D lab for his revolution, working within the limitations of the three-color printing process then available to create worlds of wonder with his meticulous ink lines, populating London’s familiar landscapes and places with otherworldly creatures of haunting tenderness and strangeness - Shakespearean fairies and talking mice and, of course, his signature enchanted trees. ![]() Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens ( public library | public domain) - the story of baby Peter, who, “like all infants,” was part bird but has now to learn to live an earthbound life - was published in 1906 with illustrations by the wildly imaginative, wildly prolific Arthur Rackham (September 19, 1867–September 6, 1939). ![]() In the first years of the twentieth century, a strange book titled The Little White Bird, or Adventures in Kensington Gardens enchanted readers with its fusion of whimsy and dark humor, its way of addressing adults in a way that honors the eternal child alive in each of us, and especially with one of its characters: a small boy named Peter Pan.įour years later, six of its chapters sprouted a new book, not for adults but for actual children. ![]()
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