Description

First Edition, and First Issue, with the single line imprint and with signature “11” at bottom of page 161 as called for by BAL. With portrait frontispiece from a photograph of the author and 192 other illustrations by notable illustrators such as A. B. Frost, Peter Newell, Dan Beard, and others, and with some from photographs. Large 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth gilt decorated and lettered on the spine, the upper cover with a central pictorial decoration of an elephant in India in gilt and four colours. 712 pp. A pleasing and handsome copy, well preserved, the binding tight and the text-block without cocking, the blue cloth with only light aging or evidence of use, internally clean and very fresh, the text-block firm, hinges strong and only very minimal evidence of shelving.