POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse. Londo[n]: Frederick Warne and Co., [1918]. Title vignette and 27 color illustrations. 12mo, original grey paper boards, upper cover with color pictorial label, color pictorial endpapers (Linder 8 & 9 [used twice]), child's name in ink on page opposite copyright page; cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, printed December, 1918; this copy has the final "N" missing in "London" on the title-page (which occurs only in the earliest copies). Linder, p. 430; this binding not in V & A.

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POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse. Londo[n]: Frederick Warne and Co., [1918]. Title vignette and 27 color illustrations. 12mo, original grey paper boards, upper cover with color pictorial label, color pictorial endpapers (Linder 8 & 9 [used twice]), child's name in ink on page opposite copyright page; cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, printed December, 1918; this copy has the final "N" missing in "London" on the title-page (which occurs only in the earliest copies). Linder, p. 430; this binding not in V & A.

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