261, [3] pp. + [2] ad leaves. With 11 (of 12) color plates & numerous black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, dark green cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial endpapers. First Edition, First State.

First state with plates coated on printed side only. This is, however, not one of the "earliest" copies of the print run; although the hyphen on the last line of p.21 is in perfect type, there is slight damage to the descender of the "t" in the word "two" on p. 252, last line. Hanff & Greene XX, Plate 75.