1910 Beautiful BAYNTUN Binding - PETER PAN in Kensington Garden illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

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Author: Sir James Matthew Barrie. (Illustrator, Arthur Rackham). 
Title: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. With Twenty-Four Drawings by Arthur Rackham.
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton, no date(circa 1910). 
Language: Text in English.
Size : 8 " X 6 ".
Pages: 125 pages.
Binding: Attractive and Fine binding, finely bound by Bayntun in full red morocco, the spine and the covers hand-tooled in gilt, all edges gilt (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover. An exquisite binding!
Content: Fine content (bright, tight and clean - as shown, original front cover and spine bound at rear, original endpaper maps bound also at rear - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the wonderful 24 color plates with captioned tissue guards by Arthur Rackham.

The book: Beautiful Edition beautifully bound by Bayntun bindery and illustrated by Rackham of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens -- a novel by J. M. Barrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and published by Hodder & Stoughton; it is one of four major literary works by Barrie featuring the widely known literary character he created, Peter Pan. Most of the text originally appeared as chapters 13–18 of Barrie's 1902 novel The Little White Bird.

The illustrator: Arthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. He is recognized as one of the leading literary figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator.
Some of his best-known works include the illustrations for Rip Van Winkle, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.

The author: Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. 

The binder: George Bayntun was born in 1873 in Bath, England. After an apprenticeship, he began his own bookbinding business in Bath in 1894, binding books by hand with great craftsmanship. Although many binders were using machines in their process, Bayntun refused to use modern techniques.