1951 The Wind in the Willows

Description

Colour Plates, Fine Binding, Illustrated, Leather Binding, With Slipcase

Finely bound in a quarter morocco binding with decorative paper to the boards, with renewed endpapers, by Eric Sweet, with his bookplate to the front paste down, in a custom chemise and custom slipcase. Slipcase is in a near fine condition, chemise is in a fine condition.

A wonderfully bound copy of this popular children's novel.

'The Wind in the Willows' is a children's tale beloved by many. It is adventurous and mystical, with its four main characters being anthropomorphised animals; Mole, Rat, Mr Toad, and Mr Badger.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and eleven colour plates, by Arthur Rackham. Collated, complete.

Kenneth Grahame is most famous for this children's classic, which he wrote after retiring from his job at the Bank of England. Though working at the bank, he often published stories in various periodicals, with some of them being published in collections, such as 'The Golden Age', and 'Pagan Papers'.