4to. 21 color-printed plates by Rackham tipped to mounts, numerous illustrations. (Some minor soiling to a few leaves.) Original vellum-backed boards gilt-stamped, top edge gilt, others uncut (some minor spotting and soiling, slight wear to extremities); printed dust jacket (tears to spine panel and flap folds, some chipping and losses with one 1 1/2-in. chip preserved, some soiling and creasing); custom white morocco-tipped slipcase.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 107 of 260 copies for sale in Great Britain and Ireland of a total edition of 520 copies, SIGNED BY RACKHAM. IN THE RARE PUBLISHER’S DUST JACKET. This edition, which includes an additional color plate not included in the trade edition, was proclaimed the “most exquisitely illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and some of the colour plates were the loveliest things of their kind that I have seen” (The Bystander, 8 December 1926). Latimore & Haskell, p. 61; Riall p. 161.