4to. Original dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in black to spine with full-size pictorial plate to upper cover, yellow edges, pictorial double-page endpapers; pp. [x], 15-297 + [iii]; illustrated throughout in bold and glorious line with a total of 12 additional coloured plates; a very nice copy with a small bruise to bottom fore-corner of upper cover with slight rubbing to fore-edge of pictorial plate; internally fresh and clean.
First edition, first issue, meeting all points, with the half-title following the ownership leaf; with an elephant device containing a stylized version of the title, and with a portrait of Dorothy on page 299. (Greene, Hanff, Martin, Haff, and Greene, p. 68).
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