Descrizione

First Edition. The best of the various issues of the first editions. Illustrated with 25 beautiful tipped-in color plates by Kay Nielsen, each with captioned tissue guards, as well as numerous detailed black and white illustrations also by Nielsen throughout the text. 4to, publisher’s original navy blue cloth with gilt lettering and elaborate pictorial decorations on the spine and upper cover, and with decorative illustrated endleaves printed in black and gilt. 206 pp. A very bright, handsome and clean copy of this rare book, unusually well preserved, the blue cloth rich and unfaded with vivid gilt, very little evidence of age or use, essentially a pristine copy and very rare in this condition, the colour plates are all very fine and are truly strong impressions, an especially pleasing copy of this brilliant work.