London, Frederick Warne, [1922].
First edition, first printing (with the correct front and rear endpapers according to Linder), 16mo, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette, 14 colour plates, colour pictorial endpapers, a little marginal oxidising, original red boards with inset colour illustration, spine slightly sunned, otherwise a very good, sharp copy, in original or coeval printed glassine dust-jacket, slightly over-sized, cleanly split down lower hinge with slight damage, minor chipping to head of spine and two small tears, overall a very good example, presented in morocco-backed solander box.
Linder p.430; Quinby 26
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