(March, Eleanor S.) illustrator. The Buttercup Book: A Flower Book for Little Folks; verses by G. M. Faulding; pictures by Eleanor S. March. London: Humphrey Milford - Oxford University Press, 1927. FIRST EDITION. 16mo - 6-5/16" X 4-1/16". Red cloth backed color pictorial boards with only very minor touches of rubbing to the extremities and minor light spotting for what is a lovely copy of the book. Original publisher's glassine dust jacket with minor scattered light spotting and slight fraying to the top edge for what is a nice example of the original dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers by Isabel Saul with the "This Book Belongs To Me" box not filled in. [48] pp.; color illustrations. Sixteen full page full color plates of flower children paired with a verse about the flower. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. The condition of the dust wrapper is VERY GOOD +. Only three copies located on OCLC/WorldCat (Princeton University Library; New York Botanical Garden; University of Oxford). RARE # 000407