Heavy stock dark gray paper end-papers with map of Kensington Gardens. Publisher's russet cloth, front cover pictorially decorated in gilt, spine decoratively lettered in gilt. On the half-title (on the top left above the inscription) is a booksellers neat pencil note "17184 / GIKRT / $150" Tipped-in color frontispiece and forty-nine tipped-in color plates all mounted on heavy stock dark gray paper, each with a lettered tissue-guard. On the verso of the half-title is another ink inscription "To dear Renée Deschamps / In loving memory of her Cousin / "Joan" / a gift from her / mother / Auntie Amy Donds / With much love to dear René / Septem/ 7 New Steine Brighton / England" A remarkable presentation copy inscribed in ink on the half-title "To Joan Burnett / from her friend / J.M. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906.įirst edition, first impression. Item #05066 A Most Significant Copy of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
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