Product Description
London, Methuen & Co.
Ltd.
, 1926 (first edition).
Octavo, xvi, 160 pages with numerous illustrations plus endpaper maps (all by Ernest H.
Shepard).
Gilt-decorated red sheep, all edges gilt; leather slightly rubbed at the extremities, with minimal loss to the head of the spine; endpapers and edges lightly foxed; a few trifling spots internally; slight loss to the bottom margin of one leaf; overall, an excellent copy.
One of 3000 copies of the leather-bound deluxe issue.
These copies were bound from the sheets of the first trade issue, and are found in blue, green, or red leather.
See John R.
Payne: 'Four Children's Books by A.
A.
Milne', in 'Studies in Bibliography', Volume 23 (University of Virginia Press, 1970).
He notes that these copies were bound 'by Burn' (presumably James Burn & Company).
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