First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original purple cloth illustrated in white and orange to the upper board, titles in orange and white to the spine. In the publisher's slipcase. Illustrated with eight full page colour plates by Sara Ogilvie. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Housed in the fine original purple card slipcase.
First published without illustrations in 1927, this beautifully illustrated edition is based on the text of the first edition, corrected against the manuscript held at The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre at the University of Texas, Austin, by Philip W. Errington, with minor emendations.
Stock code: 27046
£60