"This first edition, printed on Basingwerk toned parchment, is limited to 350 copies & consists of 250 copies in soft covers, & 75 case bound. The signature edtion of 25 copies, specially bound in buckram, has been signed by both the author and the illustrator. Designed, hand-set in 11 pt. Monotype Bembo and printed by John Smith, on the treadle platen of the Latimer Press. March 1969"--Colophon.