The Peter Pan Portfolio

by Arthur Rackham

This Edition of Peter Pan Portfolio of Pictures, by Arthur Rackham, is limited to three hundred numbered copies, of which this is

No.

The
Peter Pan
Portfolio

By

Arthur Rackham

from

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

By

J. M. Barrie

 

New York

Brentano’s

MCMXIV

List of Colored Plates

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I

At the Fairies’ Ball.

II

There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.

III

The Serpentine is a lovely lake, and there is a drowned forest at the bottom of it. If you peer over the edge, you can see the trees all growing upside down, and they say at night there are also drowned stars in it.

IV

The Fairies have their tiffs with the birds.

V

Peter Pan puts his strange case before old Solomon Caw.

VI

The birds show Peter Pan how they fly a kite. Six of them took the end of the string in their beaks and flew away with it, and to his amazement it flew after them and went even higher than them.

VII

The Fairies are exquisite dancers. They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called the fairy ring.

VIII

You know the boards which tell at what time the Gardens are to close to-day. Well, these tricky Fairies sometimes slyly change the board on a ball night, so that it says the Gardens are to close at six-thirty, for instance, instead of seven. This enables them to get begun half an hour earlier.

IX

The Fairies’ ball supper.

X

The Gardens were white with snow and there was ice on the Round Pond.

XI

A Chrysanthemum heard Maimie, and said pointedly, “Hoity-toity, what is this?”

XII

Fairies never say, “We feel happy.” What they say is, “We feel dancey.”