London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. First edition, 4to., pp. cream cloth lettered in navy, tipped-in colour frontispiece with captioned tissue-guard, colour plates, b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; a fresh and near-fine copy, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has closed tears, creasing and small areas of loss to extremities, as well as more extensive closed tear from front lower edge.