[JUNGMAN, NICO (illustrator); JUNGMAN, BEATRIX (text)]. Holland. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904.
FIRST LIMITED EDITION, being number 30 of 300 copies, signed by Nico Jungman in black ink on the limitation page. Leather-bound; hardcover; housed in original red cloth flannel-lined slipcase; quarto (27.5 x 21 x 4.5 cm); pp. ix, [1], 212. English text, authored by Beatrix Jungman. Stunningly bound in deep red crushed morocco by Cedric Chivers, with a large square vellucent & mother-of-pearl panel depicting a Dutch boy wearing ice skates standing along a dike in the foreground, with two other figures and windmills in the background, with a separate gilt-framed vellucent title-panel below in purple, green, and orange. Bordering the panels are stylised inlaid gold tulip devices in gilt squares and curving leaves in inlaid green, connected with gilt fillets and curving gouges. Smooth spine with title in gilt and three inlaid gold tulip square devices beneath, connected by long vertical gilt stems, terminating in a single inlaid green and gilt plant base. Small circular tulip ornament to the rear panel in gilt and inlaid gold and green. Gilt-ruled turn-ins with small gilt floral ornament at corners. Hand-marbled red and brown mottled endpapers, top edge gilt. Beautifully illustrated with 75 colour plates by Nico Jungman, each with a captioned tissue guard. Condition: FINE. An immaculate copy. Scarce thus.
