The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins by Robert Paltock. Illustrated by Edward Bawden. (London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1928).  First edition with Bawden's illustrations.

Small quarto. 26 x 20 cms. 342 pages, colour and black & white illustrations ,double-page colour plates. Good-fair copy, some foxing, heavy in places, corners of some pages creased, fore-edge slightly marked and foxed, good internally but boards badly marked by damp-staining, spine fraying. Dustwrapper missing.

Edward Bawden's first book illustrations, drawn while still in his twenties (he gained his Diploma in Book Illustration in 1924),  using stencil colour for many, with decorative head and tail pieces in black & white.