Lot 279
  • 279

Potter, Beatrix.

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Description

  • A collection of thirteen volumes. Frederick Warne and Co., 1905-1993
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. 1905, first edition, first or second issue, 27 coloured illustrations, original green boards, ownership inscription, extremities faded, tear to head of spine with repair; The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse. 1910, first edition, first or second issue, 27 coloured illustrations, original blue-grey boards, abrasion to front endpapers; The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. 1911, first edition, first or second issue, 27 coloured illustrations, original dark green boards, ownership inscription; The Tale of Pigling Bland. 1913, first edition, first or second issue, 15 coloured illustrations, original maroon boards, ownership inscription, some splitting at gutter; Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes. 1917, first edition, first issue, 15 coloured illustrations, original olive-green boards, foot of spine slightly bumped; The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse. 1918, first edition, first issue, 27 coloured illustrations, original brown boards, some wear and repairs to spine; together with later edition; Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes. 1922, first edition, first issue, 15 coloured illustrations, original red boards, lower joint split at foot, repairs; Peter Rabbit's Almanac for 1929. 1928, first edition, 13 coloured illustrations, original buff boards, loss to head of spine, repairs to spine; The Tale of Little Pig Robinson. 1930, first edition, first issue, 6 coloured illustrations, original blue cloth, dust-jacket, some loss to dust-jacket; The Sly Old Cat. 1971, 14 coloured illustrations, original white cloth, dust-jacket, The Tale of Peter Rabbit 1893-1993. 1993, number 613 of 750 copies, 2 facsimile volumes and facsimile pictorial letter, publisher's folding cloth box; together with one other; mostly 16mo, illustrations by Beatrix Potter, bindings with pictorial label on upper cover except last three volumes, occasional finger-soiling (13)

Condition

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