London: Dean & Son, Ltd, No date [1899]. [41] pages. With 22 full-page coloured plates illustrating the letters of the alphabet. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Oblong: 246 x 325 mm. First edition. End-papers replaced; patch of water-staining to upper board and a few small light stains to the very outer fore-edges ; else a very good copy of this tongue-in-cheek alphabetical depiction of the British and their Empire.