colour illustration by Spencer Baird Nichols mounted front cover with gilt decorated borders containing titles; cover illustration repeated in sepia as frontis.; b/w. illustrated e/p's by W.T. Benda, 3 further brown & white ills. by Benda & one by Nicholls through book, a tale of the Nativity & a leper boy restored to wholeness by his meeting with the Virgin & her Holy Child, previous owner's ink inscription on the pre-title page, otherwise an unusually clean & bright copy of this classic work by the author of "The Secret Garden.