Quarto. Original quarter vellum, cream-coloured covers, titles to spine and front cover gilt, image blocked in gilt to front board, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 15 colour plates mounted on heavy cream-coloured paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Anonymous bookplate; slight pale blemish on spine, shallow lateral scratch across back cover, touch of foxing to endpapers, one or two thumb marks. A very good copy.
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