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.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1965. Second impression (first published in 1953), English text, 4to., pp.(26), cloth-backed pictorial boards with decorative aperture to front board, cut-out details throughout, full colour illustrations; contents (a single quire) loose within boards, crease to lower inner corners throughout, a little rubbing to extremities, and just slight surface soil to covers, a very good copy.

London: Chapman And Hall, 1867. First edition, 4to.,pp. xx,266, cream pictorial cloth, gilt, gilt to edges of text block, b/w illustrations and b/w frontispiece; light toning to margins, foxing to half title and front and rear free endpaper verso, light surface water marking and foxing to boards, still a very good, attractive copy. No dust-jacket.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. First edition, 8vo., pp.159, deluxe pictorial full blue morocco, gilt, 5 raised bands, gilt decorations to compartments, colour frontispiece plate, pictorial endpapers and numerous in-text illustrations (monochromatic; printed in brown); a fine copy.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1875. 8vo., pp. xii,207,31 (adverts), pictorial brown cloth, gilt lettering, decorated spine, b/w plates, b/w frontispiece; adverts dated 1875, blind stamp to front free endpaper, cracking to inner hinge with webbing visible but all contents firm, ink stain to lower margin of plate facing p.113, toning and soiling to margins, foxing to plate facing p.80, rubbing to extremities, toned to spine, overall very good. No dust-jacket.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1929. First illustrated edition, 8vo., pp.ix,140, red cloth, gilt, coloured top edge, b/w frontispiece, 15 further b/w plates; small ownership plate to front free endpaper, light toning to endpapers and tissue guard, slightly foxed, edges lightly toned, light shelf-wear to boards, spine slightly rolled, overall a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket which is lightly toned and foxed, very slightly soiled to the rear and lightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise very good, now in a protective cover.

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1938. 8vo., pp.328, red cloth, gilt, pictorial title, b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; light foxing to edges, light rubbing to extremities, with spine lightly rolled, an otherwise very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly chipped to head of spine, with light surface soil to pale paper.

London: J. Harris/B. Crosby, 1811. 12mo., pp.68,(iv)adverts, decorative paper-covered card wrappers with printed paper label to front and pictorial vignette pasted down to rear, 29 engraved illustrations; some wear to paper covering of spine, light rubbing to extremities, otherwise very good indeed.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. 8vo.,pp. 95, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

London: J. Harris, 1801. 12mo., pp.xii,183,(iii), backed in green roan, gilt, marbled boards, speckled edges, engraved frontispiece and pictorial title; small pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, light toning and foxing to prelims, internally fresh, with wear to paper covering at extremities and some rubbing to boards, overall a very good copy indeed. [‘Probably the first book to be published by J. Harris alone’. Moon 212]

London: Humphrey Milford, 1927. First edition, oblong 4to., pp.96, pictorial cream cloth spine printed in black, pictorial paper-covered boards in colour, colour pictorial title, colour and b/w plates including double-page colour plate, b/w vignettes; stitching occasionally visible between leaves, rubbing and light wear to extremities, a good copy.

London and Edinburgh: T.C.& E.C, Jack, 1906. Large 8vo., pp. xv,211, cream pictorial cloth, uncut, t.e.g., decorative gilt to spine and boards, gold endpapers, colour frontispiece, 29 colour plates not including frontispiece, occasional spots of foxing throughout, otherwise internally clean, small tear lower margin of frontispiece page, area of loss to lower margin of contents page and a smaller area of loss to page 1, light rubbing to boards, particularly affecting the corners, light surface soil, overall still a very good copy.

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1925. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 189, grey paper covered boards, burgundy lettering, colour plates, decorative borders to text; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, toning to margins and endpapers, some water damage to rear endpapers, with some light rippling to margins of rear board, toned to edges of text block and to extremities of boards, otherwise very good, in a good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, piece missing to front upper margin with some title text missing, circular hole to lower section of spine, rubbed and creased to extremities, with chipping and wear to head and foot of spine and corners.

London: Hamish Hamilton Children’s Books, 1980. First edition thus, signed by the artist, 4to., pp.(30), glazed pictorial hardcover, colour-illustrated throughout, including pictorial endpapers and pictorial title; autographed and dated by Michael Foreman to front free endpaper verso, foxing to endpapers, occasional light foxing within, a very good copy.

Reissued by The Sumach Press, Oblong 4to.,pp.56, hardcover, black lettering, b/w plates, pictorial endpapers; light rubbing to foot of spine, o/w a near-fine copy, in a very good price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has rubbing and soiling, with some light surface scratches to rear.

London: Cecil Palmer & Hayward, 1916. First edition, 4to., pp.78, pictorial brown cloth stamped in black, small pictorial paper title label to spine, colour frontispiece and 3 further colour plates, all with tissue guards, pictorial title printed in orange, and decorative pictorial borders throughout; light toning to margins, light marking to front board, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, bearing the same design as the front board, which is a little chipped and worn to the extremities, with a few neat paper-reinforcements to reverse of closed tears, but overall very good.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First edition thus, large 8vo., pp.29, pale green hardcover, gilt, 22 dichromatic illustrations in orange and black; slight paper splitting to head and foot of front inner hinge, light foxing to edges, otherwise very good indeed, in price-clipped pictorial dust jacket, which has light creasing/rubbing to head and foot of spine, else very good+.

London: Blackie & Son Ltd, 1902. First edition, 8vo., pp.288, pictorial green cloth, lettering in gilt and black, b/w frontispiece, 5 further b/w illustrations, coloured endpapers; ownership plate to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers, light toning throughout, light foxing to edges, light rubbing to extremities and spine slightly sunned, a very good copy.

London: J.M. Dent & Co. First edition, with translator’s ink presentation inscription to head of front free endpaper, tall 8vo., pp.xvii,379, uncut, pictorial pale blue cloth lettered in black, with gilt accents to front board, t.e.g., frontispiece and pictorial title, title in red and black, 22 further b/w plates with decorative borders in red, as well as numerous decorative head and tailpieces; foxing to endpapers and adjacent leaves, light toning to margins, clean within, rubbing to extremities, with some light general surface soil to the pale cloth, spine a little dulled, a near-very good copy of this scarce volume.

London: Unwin Hyman, 1987. Fiftieth anniversary edition, first printing, 8vo.,pp. xvi,256, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, maps to endpapers; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light toning and foxing to edges of text block, small stain to margin of p.254, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, with light wear to rear corner of head of spine and to upper corners.