Hardcover. NY/London, E.P. Dutton, 1st, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Original white cloth with elaborate full gilt decoration to spine and front board, which also has a sunken panel, with a beveled gilt tooled edge, where a full color illustration is placed. Silk patterned paper endpapers. All edges gilt. Binding tight. This is a near fine copy, in exceptional condition. Folio, 15 X 11 1/2", illustrated with six stunning full color chromolithographic plates and twenty-seven sepia vignettes throughout the text. The artist is Julius Hoppner, a master of fairy and fantasy illustration. Printed in Nuremberg in 1888, this is the American edition with the Dutton imprint.