Details
POTTER, BEATRIX. The Pie and the Patty-Pan. New York: Frederick Warne & Co., [1905]. 10 color plates and 20 black-and-white text illustrations. Small 4to, original blue paper boards, upper cover with inset circular color pictorial label, joints cracked, some wear to spine ends and corners, some soiling to covers; endpapers a little browned, owner's presentation slip affixed to upper pastedown. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with "36 East 22d Street" address on title-page, and Schlueter imprint on p. [52]. Not in Quinby or V & A.
Provenance
Marion Fischer, ink ownership inscription on frontispiece recto and gift inscription to her on mounted slip affixed to front pastedown.