[Three coloured plates, tipped in onto three leaves in an illustrated portfolio.] The Bookman Portfolio. Containing Plates in Colour by Jessie Willcox Smith. Illustrating The Water Babies, by Charles Kingsley.

Each of the three coloured plates is 19 x 14 cm, and each is laid down on a piece of 31.5 x 20.5 cm cream textured paper, each mount with caption and vignette printed in green. The three are placed in a portfolio, made of the same textured paper as the mount, with the front carrying the title, publishers' details, and an illustration (of underwater baby balancing on a fish). In fair condition, aged and with wear to extremities. The captions to the three illustrations (each of which is 'From a painting by JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH') read: 'He felt how comfortable it was to have nothing on but himself.', 'And there he saw the last of the Gairfowl, standing up on the Allalonestone, all alone.' and 'Upon the snow-white pillow, lay the most beautiful little girl that Tom had ever seen.' The only copies traced on OCLC WorldCat or COPAC, at Yale and Louisiana State University.