REEVES, James (author). Edward ARDIZZONE (illustrator). Arcadian Ballads. London Heinmenn. 1978

Slim 4to.; original dark brown cloth lettered gilt to spine, in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [x] + 48; with a total of 18 black-and-white plates by Ardizzone including full-, and double-page illustrations; a near fine copy with some spotting to fore-edge of slim book block, in fine, unclipped dustwrapper (£4.95).

Fiirst edition. A series of ballads of which all but one are based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses.