Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was born in Lewisham, England, and studied at the Lambeth School of Art. Among his best-known illustrations are the ones he created for Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Grimm's Fairy Tales, J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. His income from his book illustrations was augmented by annual exhibitions of his artwork, including one at the Louvre in Paris in 1914. Rackham won a gold medal at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906 and another at the Barcelona International Exposition in 1912.