Potter, Three items relating to The Fairy Caravan, including first English edition and cancelled American sheets, [1929]

From the Collection of Judy Taylor, MBE

POTTER, BEATRIX

Three items relating to The Fairy Caravan, comprising:

i) The Fairy Caravan. Philadelphia: David McKay Company / [Ambleside: George Middleton], 1929, 4to, first English edition privately printed by the author [one of 100 copies], 6 coloured plates and other illustrations by Beatrix Potter, original cloth backed boards, head and foot of spine slightly bumped; ii) The Fairy Caravan. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1929, 4to, first edition, first nine leaves only, signed by the dedicatee (“Henry P. Coolidge”) on dedication page; iii) The Fairy Caravan. Warne, 1952, new edition, 6 coloured plates and other illustrations by Beatrix Potter, original cloth, dust-jacket, some browning, binding worn and faded, dust-jacket worn with extensive loss

The Fairy Caravan was published by Alexander McKay after the publisher managed to persuade Beatrix Potter to write another book. As Linder notes, "...Potter did not wish for an English edition of The Fairy Caravan, because she felt the stories were 'too personal - too autobiographical' to publish in this country". In order to secure English copyright, however, Potter produced 100 copies with the first eighteen pages discarded and replaced by sheets privately printed in Ambleside. The illustrations within these pages are entirely new or redrawn for this edition. The present lot includes a set of loose leaves from the American edition replaced for the English issue.

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