POTTER, BEATRIX. The Story of Miss Moppet. London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1906. 14 color illustrations separated by fourteen pages of text (printed in green). Oblong 12mo, contents mounted and folded accordian style on pale green linen back into original decorated grey cloth wallet-style case, upper cover with mounted oval color pictorial label, mottled plum-colored paper lining; contents fold-out in panoramic form from first illustration (which is mounted onto the front inner cover flap, as issued), some minor rubbing along folds. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "London & New York" on back cover. Linder, p. 426; V & A 1559.

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POTTER, BEATRIX. The Story of Miss Moppet. London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1906. 14 color illustrations separated by fourteen pages of text (printed in green). Oblong 12mo, contents mounted and folded accordian style on pale green linen back into original decorated grey cloth wallet-style case, upper cover with mounted oval color pictorial label, mottled plum-colored paper lining; contents fold-out in panoramic form from first illustration (which is mounted onto the front inner cover flap, as issued), some minor rubbing along folds. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "London & New York" on back cover. Linder, p. 426; V & A 1559.
Provenance
Marjorie Balman, ink inscription inside front flap (dated "Xmas 1908").

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