Velveteen Rabbits

Is this one?

That is sad. The illustrations were wonderful.

Not from the book I had.....

The very confusing thing about The Velveteen Rabbit is that many editions have been published, some highly edited, with many different illustrators. The online version that the bunny posted is the short version, about 17 pages. The original was about 47 pages. So it goes in the publishing world...

If anyone does have an original copy, and a scanner, they can send the pictures to me, and I will put it up on a site...

Is the original edition quite rare?

Hmmm - we have one at work, I believe - but no scanner!!!

But - I shall have to check how many pages there are.

Actually, I was mistaken, deb has the correct text. This is the version I remember (nicely browsable with the original illustrations): http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0385077254/ref=sib_rdr_fc/102-0683775-3469703?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S001#reader-link

Over here, it only shows three pages: the cover, one page (sans illustrations,) and the copyright page .

You have one at work; wow! Is it often read?

I'm having trouble loading the illustrations on Amazon myself, but I did see them there earlier.

Its a page turner

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0385077254/ref=sib_rdr_fc/102-0683775-3469703?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S001#reader-page

Well, I was only able to find this one, 'Christmas Morning'.

That is IT!!!

One of the originals!!!

SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCHES!

An example of the Arthur Rackham illustrations which made such a powerful impression upon me when reading A Christmas Carol:

Seen the Rackham Peter Pan?????

I adored Rackham as a weelowan!

Illustrations for The Velveteen Rabbit by William Nicholson:

I had a Death of Arthur illustrated by Rackham, and Izzy Walton's The Compleat Angler. We also had books illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, which were just beautiful. Of course, being just liddlies, we had no notion of what these cost our father, and did not give them the loving care which would have preserved them to this day. But that is part and parcel of childhood, too.

One of my favorite books as a child was Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verse, but i don't recall who did the illustrations, which i loved. I'll see what i can come up with.

Wow! What a thread!

I adore Rackham. And am surpassingly lucky to have a friend who is a rare books dealer, and scoops up anything Rackham-related for me. His going away present for me is hanging right there {points} 4 feet away from me, a large print from 1906 of "The Fairies Have Their Tiffs With The Birds" from Peter Pan. Rackham himself oversaw its production.

I've found the illustrator for the 1885 edition of A Child's Garden of Verse, Jessie Wilcox-Smith, who also illustrated a host of other books, including The Water Babies and Heidi. I can't yet find any of Garden of Verse illustrations, but i'll keep looking. She was all of 22 when Stevenson published that book.