Book Description

Small 8vo., 90 x 117mm; publisher’s accordion-folded 8-leaf panorama on board, with plates and text to both sides, each section hinged with blue cloth, with a thin ribbon tie to fore-edge; with a total of 9 characteristically striking full colour plates by Preston (including covers) opposing pretty pictorial text plates, each featuring simple 4-line verses; a very good copy with minor rubbing and very small edge-wear, with spine ribbon sympathetically replaced and without the presentation cardboard box; rare. First, and apparently sole, edition. Not in Hillier.
Author PRESTON, Chloe (illustrator). G.C.F. (verses by).
Date Circa 1920.
Binding Publisher's blue pictorial cloth.
Publisher Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd.
Illustrator Chloe PRESTON
Condition Very good.

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