The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated by Wyndham Payne. London: Methuen, 1930. Second Edition with these Illustrations. Bound in light blue cloth with original pictorial dust jacket. With school presentation book plate to front pastedown.

Grahame’s enduring contribution to the shared literature of young and old, composed originally as a sequence of letters to his son featuring the exploits of Mole, Ratty and Toad.

The first edition of ‘The Wind in the Willows’ was issued on October 8th, 1908, and since then has been reprinted many times in a variety of editions, illustrated and unillustrated.