AINSLIE, Kathleen (author and illustrator). “What I did.” London; Castell Brothers Ltd. [1905]

Small square 8vo..; publisher’s pictorial card covers, silk cord ties; pp. [32]; with text throughout in printed grey, in calligraphic font, opposing 16 fine chromolithographed plates; an excellent copy with light dusting to covers, internally very fresh without ownership inscription.

First edition. Ainslie’s delightful wooden peg-dolls have adventures at a traditional English boarding school involving fagging, flogging, cricket, practical jokes and illicit smoking.