Description
4to, XVII 179pp. Hardcover in blue cloth with top edge blue, and with silver and crimson gilt titling and decoration to front and spine inoverall pristine condition in a blue slipcase that is likewise in unmarked, fine condition, text on Morzine Wove paper printed and bound in Germany. Frontis. and all eleven coloured illustrations are as tipped in etchings and are in perfect order with no tissue guards as issued. The book is devoid of all browning and foxing with no extraneous prior owner markings either. Plus the beautiful decorated light blue unmarked endpapers are intact on a firm uncracked spine (despite the size of the text-block). This text follows an important 1911 edition by Hodder and Stoughton with minor emendations.