The Peter Pan Picture Book

Overview:

  • Title: The Peter Pan Picture Book
  • Author: J. M. Barrie, Daniel O'Connor (I)
  • Year: 1907
  • Publisher: George Bell & Sons
  • Price: -/5
  • Pages: x+62+[28]
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Chapter Book
  • Title Reference: The Peter Pan Picture Book
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed.
    • Library records (LCCN and WorldCat, below) report: -- illustrated endpapers and title page -- 28 color plates [frontispiece plus 27 interior color plates], "Each plate preceded by leaf with descriptive letterpress" -- "An amended version of The Peter-Pan keepsake, following the story of J. M. Barrie's play. cf. Pref." ["keepsake" may be printed material distributed at performances of the 1904 play]
    • Publication date (inferred) and price from listing in "Books Received" Manchester Guardian 1907-10-12 p7; and from brief review The Scotsman 1907-10-17 p2: "a 'plum' among the gift books of the season"; O'Connor's is "an amended version of the story of Mr. Barrie's fairy play as already told in the 'Peter Pan Keepsake'."
    • OCLC 45597498 reports the 1998 microfiche reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library (Opie collection of children's literature; 029:315).