The wind in the willows / Kenneth Grahame ; illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard

Kenneth Grahame

RA Collection: Book

Record number

11/4278

Author

Imprint

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 36 Essex Street, WC2, 1959

Physical Description

284 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

General Note

`Originally published October 8th 1908. First published in this form 1959. Line illustrations copyright Ernest H. Shepard under the Berne Convention. Coloured illustrations © 1959 Ernest H. Shepard. Text printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd, Frome and London. Colour plates printed by Fleming & Humphreys (Baylis) Ltd, Leicester and bound by James Burn & Co. Ltd, Esher. 103.1. Catalogue No. 6185/U.' [Colophon].

Contents

I. The river bank -- II. The open road -- III. The wild wood -- IV. Mr Badger -- V. Dulce Domum -- VI. Mr Toad -- VII. The piper at the gates of dawn -- VIII. Toad’s adventures -- IX. Wayfarers all -- X. The further adventures of Toad -- XI. “Like summer tempests came his tears” -- XII. The return of Ulysses

Binding Note

Turquoise cloth covers with gilt pictorial decoration and title on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust-jacket.

Subject

Illustrated books
Children's stories

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