Quarto. 56pp. 11 full-page colour illustrations and numerous illustrated borders throughout. Original publisher's tan cloth backed glazed pictorial boards.. Extremities rubbed and marked, some chipping to boards. Decorated endpapers, hinges partially exposed, else internally clean and crisp.

Walter Crane (1845-1915), English artist among the most prolific, and considered one of the most influential, children’s book illustrators of his generation, and a primary contributor to the nursery motif that the genre of children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages during the late nineteenth-century.