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First gift edition, signed by both the author and illustrator on the title page, with an original small ink drawing of the mouse by Scheffler alongside his signature. The Gruffalo was first published in 1999 and won the Smarties Book Prize in the same year. Quarto. Original green cloth, lettering to spine in gilt, illustration to front cover in gilt surrounding mounted colour illustration, vignette to rear cover in gilt, illustrated endpapers. Housed in original pictorial slipcase. Colour illustrations throughout by Axel Scheffler. A fine copy.

The Gruffalo is a children's book by writer and playwright Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler. It tells the story of a mouse taking a walk in the forest and featuring encounters with several dangerous animals, depicted humorously and with rhyme.