Kenneth Grahame — Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame

London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1902]. Cloth. A delightfully illustrated volume of children's tales by Kenneth Grahame. A later edition, originally published in 1898.In the original decorative green cloth binding. With an illustrated title page and 8 photogravures by Maxfield Parrish, an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. His works featured distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery. Collated, lacking the frontispiece.Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood by Kenneth Grahame, and is a sequel to the collection The Golden Age.The volume is best known for its inclusion of Grahame's classic story The Reluctant Dragon, with some of the other stories included in the volume being The Twenty-First of October, A Departure and A Saga of the Seas.Kenneth Grahame was a British writer best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Undated, dated from a matching copy held at the University of Cambridge Libraries. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally smart. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine, with slight fading. Rubbing to joints, with the odd very faint mark to boards. Front hinge strained. Internally, generally firmly bound, with binding fragile to the front of the work. Pages are bright and clean. Ink inscription to first blank. Lacking frontispiece. Good . Ill.: Maxfield Parrish. Good .