"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme

London: Jarrold Publishers, no date [1912]. [Children's classic] FIRST ALDIN ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.xii; 13-291; [1], blank. Eighteen colour plates and other illustrations. Handsomely bound in green half morocco, over original green cloth covers elaborately blocked in gilt. Some spotting to the thick paper stock, exterior is fine. A popular illustrated edition in an attractive recent leather binding. Item #58980
Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'.
Price: £275.00