brown or green cloth board covers with title and elaborate design embossed in gold, gold gilt to page edges, title on spine embossed in gold, gift inscription to one copy of 1901, colour plate frontispiece is titled ALFRED THE GREAT LEARNING TO READ, plus nine internal full page colour plates and many in text black and white drawings, RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS, LTD. LONDON. PARIS. NEW YORK. PUBLISHERS TO THE QUEEN, BLACK & WHITE DRAWINGS & LETTERPRESS. PRINTED IN ENGLAND, 94 pages