Peter and Wendy [Pan]

vii, [3], 267 pp. 8vo. Olive cloth, elaborate gilt decorations and titles. Engraved frontispiece, title page, and plates from illustrations by F.D. Bedford. Barrie's famous tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up, first released in 1904 as a play entitled Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, and novelized in 1911 as Peter and Wendy for simultaneous release in the UK by Hodder and Stoughton and the US by Charles Scribner's Sons. This was the second work to feature the character of Peter Pan, following the 1902 The Little White Bird, or Adventures in Kensington Gardens. The 1953 animated Disney film revived interest in the character, and Barrie's works in general, which led to a 1954 musical version of the original play that supplanted it in popularity due to its circulation on television.