298 pp. Illustrated with 12 color inserted plates by John R. Neill. 22.8x17 cm (9x6¾"). Maroon cloth, pictorial cover label, black & white pictorial endpapers, color pictorial jacket. First Edition.
First state with Reilly & Lee imprint on spine in semi-script, "fancy" letters. All later printings were issued without color plates. Front cover and flap of earliest variant jacket folded into copy in rear, worn with loss along edges (Bienvenue & Schmidt p. 116).
