Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Cicely Mary Barker (illustrator). 1st Edition. Blackie & Son Ltd., London/Glasgow, No date, attributed to 1900 half-cloth. No Jacket. Grey papers covered board, blue covered spine, original fairy print pasted on front cover. 12 tipped-in color plates and some black and white drawings in text. One color plate on cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Boards are clean, (remarkably so given the matt finish and age), unmarked but with some bumping and straight spine as pictures. Occasional foxing, moderately heavy in one or two places though this effects the pages and not the colour plates  An unusually, well-kept, solid copy. 12 colour pictures