Beatrix Potter

First edition, first issue of this story of the differences between city and country living, a very Beatrix Potter retelling of Aesop's "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse."

• Beatrix Potter (English).
• London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co, (1918).
• 86 pages.
• Illustrated in color throughout.
• Light brown paper boards with color pictorial center panel and brown lettering, color decorative endpapers of other Beatrix Potter characters.

"One place suits one person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie."

"Miss Potter need not worry about rivals. She has none," proclaimed The Bookman's review of The Tale Of Johnny Town-Mouse in 1918 (quoted in Linder, 244). Certainly this title carries all the hallmarks of Potter's talent: beautiful countryside, well-dressed animals, prose that is both efficient and evocative. It was also to be one of her final books for Warne, as she became more focused on the care and keeping of her Lake District farm.