Kenneth Grahame
(1859 - 1932)
Kenneth Grahame (March 8, 1859 – July 6, 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children’s literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon, a chapter in his memoir of childhood, Dream Days. He served as secretary of the Bank of England.
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The Wind in the Willows (1940)
Arthur Rackham was the first artist approached to illustrate Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece about Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger and their adventures on the riverbank, but was too busy at the time. When he was contracted by the Limited Editions Club, he was already mortally ill and it was his last commission. This is the only edition with all sixteen of Rackham’s plates.
Read online at archive.org. This is the Heritage edition.
The Wind in the Willows (1940)
While lacking four of the sixteen color illustrations in the Limited Editions Club version, this reprint includes pen and ink chapter heads not in the limited edition.
The Wind in the Willows (1953)
For this 101st edition, originally published in Britain in 1951, Ernest Shepard supplied six new full page illustrations of the adventures of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger on the riverbank.
The Wind in the Willows (1971)
For this edition Ernest Shepard has colored all of the plates of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger and their adventures on the riverbank.
Read online at archive.org.
The Wind in the Willows (1980)
Setting out one spring morning, mole discovers the river, the water rat, toad and badger.
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A Wind in the Willows Christmas (2000)
In this excerpt from The Wind in the Willows, mole returns to his home, having spent the summer and autumn with his friend rat.
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