[HAGUE, Michael]. The Wind in the Willows. By Kenneth Grahame. Illustrated by Michael Hague. NY: Ariel Books [1980]. 4to, [viii] 208pp. Brown cloth decoratively stamped in gold. Pictorial map endpapers; color illustrations throughout. Spine ends a tad rubbed, else a fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (slight rubbing to spine ends). Signed by the artist Michael Hague, with a full-page water-color illustration of Toad!

 

First Hague-illustrated edition. Michael Hague’s wonderfully colored, intricately detailed illustration of Toad, delicately painted on the verso of the front free endpaper is truly remarkable! Hague’s remarkable talent is truly at wonderful display in this work of art!