Pauline Diana Baynes [artist and author] Victoria and the Golden Bird Livley coloured pictorial double spread illustrations throughout with the text. [32 pages] Traces of a pencil inscription on the front plain pastedown, pictorial title page is tanned, the rest of the contents clean and very good, binding firm. Cloth spine with pictorial boards; extremities lightly worn else very good and bright in the original coloured pictorial dust jacket which has some wear and tears, and some loss at two corners, some marks but still bright. Printed by Jesse Broad & Co Ltd, Old Trafford, Manchester. Blackie and Son Limited: First edition [1948] Scarce. This is Pauline Baynes’s debut publication as both writer and illustrator, and it caught the attention of J R R Tolkien who asked her to illustrate his book Farmer Giles of Ham, later she became famous and admired for the illustrations in the C S Lewis Narnia books.