First edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original green cloth, with elaborate silver illustration by Omar Rayyan to the upper board and with black and silver titles to the spine, in the dark green slipcase. Illustrated with eight colour plates by Omar Rayyan. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Housed in the fine, structurally sound slipcase. A lovely example.
A beautifully illustrated edition of Uttley's 1939 classic children's story. An Edwardian girl's time-slip to the Elizabethan Age leads to her becoming involved in the infamous Babington Plot.
Stock code: 29589
£40