London: Adam and Charles Black: 1903. First Edition. In hardback publisher's blue binding with flower design. Gilt title to front board and spine.Complete with 81 fine colour plates, each with captioned tissue guard. B/w frontis portrait of Allingham. Top page edges gilt. Boards lightly bumped to corners. Foxing to front and rear endpapers, otherwise a very clean and tidy book. xi., 204 pp. 230 x 175 mm (9 x 7 inches).