POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle. London: Frederick Warne, 1905. 16°. Half title, coloured frontispiece and 26 coloured plates by Beatrix Potter. Original green boards with coloured pictorial label on upper cover (lower joints split). Provenance: Smith-Rewse, 1905 (signature on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION. Linder p.425; Osborne I, p.382; Quinby 8.
With the same author's The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (London, 1904), The Tale of Two Bad Mice (London, 1904, lacking spine), The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906) and The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse (London, 1910), all FIRST EDITIONS (with minor defects), 8 later editions by the same author, 3 "Flower Fairy" books by Cicely Mary Barker and 7 books by Elsie Oxenham with remnants of dust-jackets. (23)
POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle. London: Frederick Warne, 1905. 16°. Half title, coloured frontispiece and 26 coloured plates by Beatrix Potter. Original green boards with coloured pictorial label on upper cover (lower joints split). Provenance: Smith-Rewse, 1905 (signature on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION. Linder p.425; Osborne I, p.382; Quinby 8.
With the same author's The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (London, 1904), The Tale of Two Bad Mice (London, 1904, lacking spine), The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906) and The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse (London, 1910), all FIRST EDITIONS (with minor defects), 8 later editions by the same author, 3 "Flower Fairy" books by Cicely Mary Barker and 7 books by Elsie Oxenham with remnants of dust-jackets. (23)
