Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Pigling Bland, first edition, first or

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Pigling Bland, first edition, first or second printing with date on title, colour frontispiece and 14 colour plates, plain title vignette and illustrations in text, pictorial endpapers, very occasional spotting, light splitting to gutter but holding firm, original green boards with mounted colour illustration, some light rubbing and small mark to lower cover, light spotting to edges, original printed glassine dust-jacket, staining (affecting text to lower panel), extremities chipped and creased, more to at head, one or two very minor losses, [Linder p.429; Quinby 22], 16mo, 1913. *** Extremely scarce to find in glassine dust-jacket in any condition. The last work published by Beatrix Potter before her marriage to William Heelis and her move to Castle Cottage. The onset of the war coupled with Potter's illness and failing eyesight meant that she would not publish another work until 1917.

Utropspris:SEK 15,903.3

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