The Wind in the Willows (Folio Society Limited Edition)

GRAHAME, Kenneth (illus. Charles van Sandwyk). The Wind in the Willows. London: The Folio Society, 2008.

Quarto. Quarter vellum and deep green boards. Spine lettered in 22-carat gold. Cover illustration by Charles van Sandwyk stamped in three shades of foil. Upper edge gilt, others uncut. 266 pp. 16 mounted full-colour plates; more than 40 chapter headpieces and tailpieces, all by van Sandwyk. Housed in deep green buckram solander case. Centenary limited edition. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, this being number 761. Signed by the artist on the tipped-in frontispiece.

To mark the centenary in 2008, the Folio Society commissioned the Canadian artist and illustrator Charles van Sandwyk to create an entirely new suite of illustrations for a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Van Sandwyk produced over a hundred original images for the editionin a style that draws on the English watercolour tradition while remaining distinctly his own: warm, intimate, and alert to the particular light of Grahame's riverbank. The edition has come to be regarded as one of the most distinguished illustrated versions of the text, holding its own against the Shepard and Rackham associations that have long defined the book's visual identity. Each copy is signed by van Sandwyk on the tipped-in frontispiece.

Near fine. Some spots of foxing to the vellum spine; otherwise fine throughout. Solander case fine.

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Catalogue Number: HH000303

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