London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, 1898. First English edition. Hardcover. xv, [i], 336pp, + the 64 plates (incl. frontis). Contents clean and bright, with the original bright decorative endpapers. Perhaps twenty-five pages have a little spotting, and there's more intrusive foxing to about twenty others, including the title and..... More
London: Grant Richards, 1909. First English edition. Hardcover. vi, [ii], 292pp, plus 24 guarded plates, including the frontis. Contents in very good order. The frontis tissue guard is lightly pencilled-on (someone tracing the outlines of the image). Ownership name to front free endpaper, and small ownership stamp to front pastedown..... More
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, n.d. [c.1910?]. New and cheaper edition. Hardcover. (iii)-vi, [ii], 262pp, with colour frontis and 8 plates in black and white. Contents very fresh and unmarked, with some tanning to the endpapers: 2 or 3 pages have one or two small and isolated foxing spots. In the..... More
London: Everyman, J.M.Dent & Sons. 1919. Reprints. Hardcover. xiv, 240, xiv, 237, xiv, 230pp, each with 50 full-page illustrations. Printed on firm paper, and apparently unread, all three books are internally in very fresh and firm unmarked condition. Top edges tinted blue. In the blue cloth of the 'For Young..... More
