THE PAGEANT OF THE FLOWERS The Royal Road Library Series by W.H.KOEBEL , HILDA T. MILLER AND LILIAN A. GOVEY - 1922

LONDON: THORNTON BUTTERWORTH, 1922 Uncommon in Dust Jacket.Cream Cloth Boards with black blocked titles and lined borders. Laid on colour plate to front board repeated on dust jacket. 215 x 170 mm approx. Line illustrated end papers. 126 pp. Uncut fore edge of book block. 5 colour plates and 50 line drawings. First Edition 1922. Published in " The Royal Road Library" by Thornton Butterworth the illustrations are particularly charming and not unlike Charles Robinson in style. The copy offered for sale with a near complete dust jacket is offered at a reduced price as a previous owner has laid in old style confectionery silver foil which has oxidised and left brown stains to numerous pages. These have been brushed out but nevertheless remain a distraction. Please see one of the images against this listing of a page so affected to give an indication of this imperfection. Good/Good (Book- A little general shelf wear and soiling to boards. Offset browning to end papers, Ink gift inscription and date 1923 to preliminary blank. Binding sound with no cracks to end papers. Dust Jacket- Shelf rubbing to extremities with a little loss and some mild general shelf soiling. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve).