POTTER, BEATRIX. 'Come dance a jig, to my Granny's pig.' Kingston, New York: Battledore Ltd, 1995. Single sheet containing an illustration (printed in brown). One oblong sheet, 165 x 228 mm. (6½ x 9 in.), with accompanying text leaf; together in printed gray folder. LIMITED EDITION, number 8 of 100 copies (limitation on verso). This image was never used in any of the little books, it depicts a cat playing the fiddle, leading a procession of hens and a cock towards a pig with trotters raised llooking over the fence of its sty. See V & A 706 (pen-and-ink drawing after which this plate was made).

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POTTER, BEATRIX. 'Come dance a jig, to my Granny's pig.' Kingston, New York: Battledore Ltd, 1995. Single sheet containing an illustration (printed in brown). One oblong sheet, 165 x 228 mm. (6½ x 9 in.), with accompanying text leaf; together in printed gray folder. LIMITED EDITION, number 8 of 100 copies (limitation on verso). This image was never used in any of the little books, it depicts a cat playing the fiddle, leading a procession of hens and a cock towards a pig with trotters raised llooking over the fence of its sty. See V & A 706 (pen-and-ink drawing after which this plate was made).

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