Description
ONE OF 224 COPIES printed on Arnold's handmade paper, general title page with circular geese illustration, highly decorative double-page first tale title with pale green highlights and metallic gold ground, second tale full-page illustration, press device on final limitation page and numerous decorated initials, all designed by Lucien Pissarro and wood-engraved by Lucien and Esther Pissarro, pp. [vi], 39, [i], 8vo, original quarter pale blue boards, with palm-tree patterned paper covers, front cover lettered in gilt, backstrip with two gilt ornaments, slightly toned, as are the endpapers, as usual, untrimmed, a few small spots on rear board, two decorative bookplates, one contemporary (Lily Antrobus), one modern, very good
