London: Chatto and Windus. Twelfth edition, 16mo., pp.113, pictorial olive-green cloth stamped and lettered in black and red, 27 colour plates; ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, two creases to upper corner of front free endpaper, fingermarking and occasional light marking throughout, just slightly shaken, ink-stain to lower margin of front board, rubbing to extremities, a good(+) copy.

Dundee, Valentine & Sons, Ltd. 12mo., unpaginated, pale brown paper-covered boards with inlaid colour plate, colour frontispiece and 13 further colour plates, pictorial title and colophon, pictorial endpapers, monochromatic illustrations accompany the text throughout; very slight wear at head and tail of spine, light rubbing to extremities, slight toning to endpapers, occasional light thumb marks to margins, overall a very good copy indeed of this scarce and fragile volume.

London: Frederick Warne & Co. First edition thus, first impression with the small advert to front free endpaper verso, 12mo., pp.76, red paper-covered boards with pictorial colour plate laid down, lettering in white, pictorial endpapers (in colour), colour frontispiece, 17 further colour plates, b/w in-text illustrations; sunning to spine and slightly to fore-margins and front upper margin, otherwise very good indeed/near-fine.

London: S.P.C.K, 1909. First edition, 8vo., unpaginated, glazed pictorial boards backed in red cloth, colour half title, duochrome illustrations throughout; neat repair to front inner hinge, ink ownership autograph, dated 1909, to front free endpaper, toning and foxing to endpapers, thumbing and fosing to fore-margins within, wear to edges of boards, a good+ copy of this scarce volume.

London: Blackie and Son, 1909. First edition, 8vo., pp.256,17-(16) publisher’s adverts, pictorial red cloth blocked in gilt, white, pale green and black, pictorial spine, b/w frontispiece and 3 further plates; neat ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, toning and foxing to half title, with foxing to edges and somewhat to margins throughout, webbing occasionally visible toward rear of volume, especially at pp.171 and 193, loss to lower margin of rear free endpaper where paper has become stuck to rear paste-down endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, with small spots of wear to lower corners, spine dulled, overall a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1989. First edition, 4to., unpaginated, colour pictorial hardcover, colour illustrations throughout; very light toning to prelims, otherwise a near fine copy, in a near fine dust-jacket with some very light rubbing to extremities.

London: The Cresset Press Ltd., printed at The Alcuin Press, 1929. 8vo., unpaginated, patterned cloth, with stamped title-label to front board, and cream leather label to spine, gilt, t.e.g., 12 b/w wood-engraved plates; owner’s name gilt-lettered to lower corner of front board, slight tone to edges, slight sunning to spine, a very good, clean copy, in worn glassine wrapper.

London: Harris and Son. First edition, 12mo., pp.xii,156, b/w engraved frontispiece and 5 plates, quarter-calf, with pictorial paper boards, gilt; some rubbing at head and tail, corners bumped and worn, with small loss to upper rear corner, slightly pencil-marked, first free endpaper removed, contents lightly foxed, a good copy.

London: Frederick Muller Ltd. Signed, limited edition, no.39 of 250 copies signed by author and illustrator, small 4to., pp.50, quarter cream cloth, gilt, marbled paper-covered boards, wood-engraved plates and in-text illustrations; slight evidence of tape-marks to paste-down endpapers, light wear to paper at corners of boards, overall very good indeed.

London: Faber and Faber, 1973. First edition thus, oblong squat 4to., pp.(32), glazed pictorial boards, b/w title with pictorial borders, colour plates throughout; very slight foxing to front endpapers, a very good, clean copy.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1958. 8vo., pp.115, green hardcover, gilt, 6 colour plates; light evidence of removed bookplate to front free endpaper, handwritten number to upper margin and sellotape stain to lower margin of front paste-down endpaper, ‘2K’ written to upper margin of front free endpaper, foxing to prelims and edges, stitching visible between front free endpaper and half title, a little light marking to margins, else very good, in price-clipped dust-jacket, which has light surface soil, else very good.

London: Edward Arnold, Publisher to the India Office, 1895. First edition, 8vo., pp.(iv),328, uncut, pictorial brown cloth, gilt, frontispiece and pictorial title, b/w plates and illuminated letters; colour postcard tipped in the rear paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims, with ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, rubbing to extremities, gilt to spine a little dulled, a good++ copy.

London: The Dropmore Press, 1947. Limited edition, no.390 of 550 copies, 4to., pp.59, blue cloth, lettered in gilt and with pictorial emblem in gilt to front board, decorative gilt inner dentelles, handmade paper, with wood engravings by John O’Connor, including dedication page, pictorial title, 6 full-page plates, plus illuminated letter and decorative tailpiece; foxing to edges, else very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has foxing to pale paper.

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1923. Square 8vo., pictorial blue cloth, 6 colour plates and 35 b/w illustrations; vertical crease to inner margin of colour plate opposite p.60, with repair to the margin, repaired closed tear to upper margin of b/w plate at p.112, two ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, foxing to prelims and fore-edges, rubbing to extremities, with slight wear to cloth along lower edges, a good+ copy of a scarce title.

London: John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1923. First edition, Scarce, re-cased, 8vo., pp. x,177, pictorial blue cloth, black lettering, colour plates, b/w illustrations, colour frontispiece; ownership autograph and small inscription to front free endpaper, toning and foxing to title page, edges of text block, endpapers and occasionally quite significantly foxed to margins with occasional lighter foxing present throughout, plate to p.60 has a crease and neat repair to the margin, plate to p.112 with small marginal repair, very slight cracking to upper inner section of inner hinge, rubbing to extremities with light wear to corners and along lower edges of boards, light toning to spine, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1897. First edition, 8vo., pp.190,(xviii)publisher’s adverts, pictorial blue cloth, gilt, with blindstamped decoration to rear board, t.e.g., colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 3 further colour plates and 19 b/w plates, decorative endpapers; light blindstamp to front free endpaper, finger mark to title verso, light foxing to fore-edges, slight rubbing to extremities, a near-fine copy. The first book to include colour plates by Rackham.

London: William Heinemann, 1906. Signed, limited edition, no. 48 of 100 copies, 4to., pp.viii,305, uncut, full vellum, gilt, t.e.g., tipped-in colour frontispiece and plates with caption sheets; loss to corner of mounted plate at p.163, paper-cracking to front inner hinge, with webbing visible (board firm), surface soil and light wear to edges of endpapers, a very good copy.

Wien: Burgverlag/Richter & Zollner, 1922. 4to., unpaginated, cloth-backed patterned pictorial boards, 14 lithographic colour plates, each preceded by a text-leaf, pictorial endpapers; gutter slightly visible between leaves, occasional slight creasing to upper corners, light wear to extremities, including small tears to cloth at head and foot of spine, and wear to paper along edges, a very good copy of this scarce Christmas volume, which is illustrated with artwork by the Youth Art Class at the Austrian School of Arts and Crafts at the Ostreiche Museum in Vienna.

London: Methuen and Co, 1926. First edition, deluxe issue, 8vo., pp.xi,158, full pictorial blue calf, a.e.g., pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations; light toning and foxing to prelims/closing leaves, just occasional slight foxing to margins within, fingermarking to p.3, else internally fresh, spine sunned, with light sunning to very inner margins of boards, light rubbing to extremities, with slight wear to tail of spine, overall a very good copy indeed.