'For this new edition we have returned to Mervyn Peake's original black ink drawings and reoriginated [sic] them with the addition of colour tints. - Publisher's note. Twenty-nine illustrations of figures of speech with a key at the end of the book identifying them; the cover image, adjacent, is 'grin and bear it'. '
![The Secret of the Desert by Brisbane, Coutts [R. Coutts Armour]](/images/books/cover/47225_20201016143822_the-secret-of-the-desert.jpg "The Secret of the Desert by Brisbane, Coutts [R. Coutts Armour]")
