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The First Edition with Pogany's illustrations. Profusely illustrated throughout by Willy Pogany, including 20 tipped-in colour plates. A richly colored title-page by Pogany begins this enchanting classic. With exquisitely detailed pages of intricately woven text and illustrations, enclosed in ornate borders. 4to, publisher’s beautiful original sea-green cloth gilt lettered and decorated over the whole spine, the upper cover with all-over elaborate gilt, navy and maroon pictorial decorations and lettering, Pogany decorated endpapers, t.e.g., housed in a specially made protective slipcase. [178] pp. A very pleasing copy of a book so frequently found spotted or in broken binding, this copy in the beautiful decorated cloth with just light evidence of age at the extremities, minor mellowing otherwise especially fresh and bright. The interior is spotless, the plates pristine.