London: J.M. Dent & Co/New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1907. First and limited edition, #417/500 numbered copies, signed by Rackham (from a total edition of 560). xix, (1), 549, (1) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece (See Lot 204 for original art) and 23 color plates, all mounted with captioned tissue guards, 12 full-page tinted illustrations, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's full vellum, decorated in gilt, lightly soiled; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; dark green illustrated endpapers; some pages unopened; yellow silk ties wanting (one laid-in); text block browned at extremities, foxing to prelims; book-plate of DuPont executive Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. on front paste-down. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 30-31; Riall, p. 83

A fine copy.