A TO Z ( CODE NO. 190)

(Alphabet) A TO Z ( CODE NO. 190); illustrated by Edith Sarah Berkeley. London: Dean's Rag Book Co., Ltd., between 1915-1932. FIRST EDITION. 4to - 11-3/8" x 7-1/2". Red cloth backed color pictorial limp cloth wrappers, sewn at the spine as issued, with minor wrinkling to the upper fore edge corner of front wrapper for what is otherwise a pristine copy of the book. [16] butterfly-folded double cloth pp. including wrappers; pinking to head and foot of book. This is an alphabet/animal book in which each letter of the alphabet is printed four different ways: upper case and lower case roman letters printed in either black and blue or black and red, and upper case and lower case italic letters printed in black; each letter is paired with a color illustration by Berkeley of an animal that starts with that letter; light, scattered and unobtrusive spotting throughout that doesn't detract from how lovely this book is; original publisher's [4] pp. advertising slip laid in. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. Only one copy located on OCLC/WorldCat (Princeton University Library). SCARCE; especially so in such nice condition.