"A book worth reading is worth buying."
— John Ruskin

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1920. [Children's illustrated] FIRST TAGORE ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[2]; x; 209; [3]. With six chromolithographic illustrations including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration debossed to upper board. With the original blue dust-jacket. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Light even browning internally. Light wear to cloth; jacket sunned and toned to spine, some chips and closed tears to jacket edges, especially head and tail of spine, split along the upper spine fold. Large mark to upper panel. Very good. Item #50454
Price: £375.00