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4to (250 x 190 mm); illustrated with 12 colour plates by Charles Robinson and numerous vignette sketches, including title-page and preliminaries, each story preceded by a decorated half-title, light spotting to preliminary and terminal leaves, otherwise very good; publisher's light brown cloth with dark brown titles and blocks to front board and spine, pictorial endpapers (spotted), a little wear to extremities, top edge faded, otherwise a very good copy; 133 +[2] pp.

First edition, sole impression, one of 200 copies on 'small paper', from an overall limitation of 225; small 4to (220 x 170 mm); printed in black, green & sepia on Arnold's handmade paper, some with the Vale Press watermark, pictorial title-page and 9 full-page illustrations in sepia, decorative initials printed in green, all by Charles Ricketts, original vellum with gilt designs by Ricketts to covers and spine. Housed in a quarter morocco slipcase. Rockwell Kent designed bookplate to front paste down, very light spotting to some pages, boards a little bowed as usual, gilt to spine rather dull. Very good.

First edition; 12mo; decorative title printed in red & black, device by the authir printed in red at end, light browning to free endpapers; publisher's drab boards with printed title label to spine, slightly browned, a good copy.