No imprint or date, but Dean and Son, circa 1872. [24] leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers, each bearing an illustration with text beneath; the beard of blue-beard hand-coloured blue. Original blue wrappers, the upper pictorial. 25 x 22 cm. Some water-staining in the inner margin throughout, and to lower wrapper; wrappers trimmed, with loss of the publisher's imprint; slight chipping to wrapper edges; spine repaired; else very good. Scarce. COPAC records two copies only. Inscribed in pencil on first blank recto: 'Thomas Colyer Ferguson from his Grandpapa Sir William January 1873.