Beatrix Potter

A first edition of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.

• Beatrix Potter (English).
• London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911.
• 16mo.
• Color frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 color plates, pictorial endpapers.
• Bound in the publisher's green boards with mounted color illustration.

The story of Timmy and Goody Tiptoes is the only Beatrix Potter story apparently set in North America - although this is implicit rather than stated anywhere in the book. All the main animal characters are indigenous to North America: grey squirrels, chipmunks and a 'large bear' but the waters are muddied somewhat by the presence of Yellowhammers (or Emberiza citrinella, the birds that sing 'Little bita bread and-no-cheese!') whose range includes Europe and much of Asia but not America.