First edition. Quarto. Publisher’s grey cloth, lettered and decorated in blue.
 
A bright, very near fine copy, a little light spotting internally. Slight corner crease to frontispiece. Small, neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper.
 
A beautifully illustrated illustrated volume of Fairy Poetry, notable for including the first published illustration of any of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works, with the colour plate “And The Padding Feet Of Many Gnomes A-coming” illustrating his poem Goblin Feet.