The Wind in the Willows.

Grahame (Kenneth)

The Wind in the Willows.

Illustrated with paintings by James Lynch, with an Introduction by Alan Bennett.

Description: FIRST EDITION THUS, 8 colour plates (including one double-page) pp. 206, tall 8vo, publisher's apple-green watered silk with circular illustration of river with boat framed with willows and reeds blocked in gilt on upper board, spine gilt-lettered, green slipcase a touch faded at lower edge, near fine

Publication Details: The Folio Society, 1995

Notes: A discursive introduction by Bennett covering the problems of the book's adaptation to stage, Field Marshal Montgomery's similarity to Rat and the parallels to be made between Toad and Oscar Wilde.

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