The Wind in the Willows

GRAHAME (Kenneth), SHEPHARD (Ernest) & CHANDLER (Margaret) [Binder]

Published by 1931, bound 1985., 1931

About this Item

First Shepard edition. One of 200 numbered copies, this number 140, signed by Kenneth Grahame and Ernest Shepard. Illustrations after drawings by Shepard printed in black throughout, folding map at rear. 8vo., 24x19cm, 312pp. Fine later binding by Margaret Chandler (bound 1985) in full green goatskin, decorated with elaborate leather onlay in a pattern of horizontal colour blocks in blue, gray, red, yellow, white and other shades, reverse calf doublures, blue paper endleaves, binders label stamped 'MC' to lower turn-in, top edge gilt, with original gray cloth drop back box, spine label in green and gray leather lettered in gilt. London, Methuen. Very good, very slight rubbing to covers, internally clean and bright. The first edition of Wind in the Willows to be illustrated by Ernest Shepard, the only illustrated edition which Kenneth Grahame approved, signed by both author and artist in a magnificent binding by Margaret Chandler. Margaret Chandler conceived of her binding as representing the waters of a lake rippling in the distance behind overhanging willows. When the binding was made in 1985, Chandler was struck by the then emerging technology of computer graphics, and this inspired her use of rectangular panels of onlay in the style of pixels on a screen.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wind in the Willows
• Publisher: 1931, bound 1985.
• Publication Date: 1931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)