Charming edition, with gilt edged pages.  Wear to extremities, but a solid volume.  Illustrations still with tissue covers.

Grahame's first collection of stories, which he had previously been publishing in London periodicals. First published in 1895, it is considered a classic of its genre. It takes its foundation as the culture and myth of Ancient Greece, which Grahame using characters from mythology throughout the work.

The original publication was not illustrated; reissued in 1904 with Maxfield Parrish's illustrations in black and white.

Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) was a British writer, most widely known for 'The Wind in the Willows'