1st Edition Thus 1911. Twelve Full page colour illustrations by Frank C Pape and seventy six black and white drawings. This new edition is the first thus with Pape's colour plates keeping Arthur Hughe's illustrations in the text. A wonderful and un-common edition. Hardback, publisher’s blue cloth with green, blue and white designs to upper board and spine, colour onlay to upper board, top edge gilt. 12 colour plates, 76 in-text drawings, 391 pages. Printed by Blackie & Son, Glasgow. The Art Nouveau binding is typical of Blackie in this period, complete with stylized Glasgow rose. A beautifully illustrated book – here with the contents very well preserved for age. George MacDonald’s celebrated fantasy At the Back of the North Wind was first published in book form in 1871, with 76 haunting illustrations by Arthur Hughes (who would also go on to illustrate MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin, published the following year, in 1872). The story – which revolves around a boy named Diamond and his adventures with the North Wind – includes the fairy tale Little Daylight, subsequently also published as an independent work, or added to other collections of MacDonald’s fairy tales. Book is good+ with quite bright gilt decorative giltwork. Edges rubbed in places, Gilt and colour on lay is surface rubbed and dull. Boards marked in places. A used example. Contents good. Inner page with inscription rubbed out casing a slight thinning of the paper.