1921. First Edition Thus. 261 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout with colour illustrated plates with tissue guards by Virginia Frances Sterrett. Colour illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Front free endpaper has folded corner. Pages 183 and 185 detached (single folded sheet). Binding throughout remains firm. Mild tanning to edges of plates. Boards have slight edge wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor scuffing and fraying to spine ends and corners. Faint white marks and scratches to boards.