Small quarto (270 x 210 mm). Original vellum, titles to spine and front cover gilt, three-line gilt border on front cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers, bookseller’s ticket adhered to rear endpaper. Colour frontispiece and 11 coloured plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Covers bowed, some light rubbing to the front cover and extremities, endpapers a little cockled, Bookseller’s ticket to rear endpaper, a very good copy.
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