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THE TALE OF MRS. TITTLEMOUSE.
by POTTER, BEATRIX .:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Warne, 1910.. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE 1910 (dated on title page), IN WORN FIRST ISSUE DUSTWRAPPER. Approximately 145 x 110 mm, 5½ x 4¼ inches, cream boards, lettered dark green, hexagonal colour plate onlaid, coloured pictorial endpapers, 85 pages. Coloured frontispiece and 26 colour plates. Book leaning very slightly, tiniest bump to top corners, spine very slightly darkened at head and tail due to chips to dustwrapper, head and tail also very lightly rubbed, minute dent to lower edge of boards, no inscriptions, very light diagonal binding crease to page 17 and page 20 (colour plates - see image), contents otherwise very clean and bright. A very good plus tight copy in the slightly tattered original printed glassine dustwrapper (dw: small chips to head and tail of spine (maximum 25 mm, 1") and to top and bottom of folds, all text intact, tiny tear through price of "1/- Net" at foot of spine, small pale brown mark on blank upper panel - see images). The first issue dustwrapper (July 1910) has 9 titles from the Peter Rabbit series on the lower panel ending with The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck (see image). The second issue (November 1910) has 10 titles ending with The Flopsy Bunnies. Linder, page 420. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Synopsis
To celebrate Peter's birthday, Frederick Warne is publishing new editions of all 23 of Potter's original tales, which take the very first printings of Potter's works as their guide. The aim of these editions is to be as close as possible to Beatrix Potter's intentions while benefiting from modern printing and design techniques. The colors and details of the watercolors in the volumes are reproduced more accurately than ever before, and it has now been possible to disguise damage that has affected the artwork over the years. Most notably, The Tale of Peter Rabbit restores six of Potter's original illustrations. Four were sacrificed in 1903 to make space for illustrated endpapers, and two have never been used before. Of course, Beatrix Potter created many memorable children's characters, including Benjamin Bunny, Tom Kitten, Jemima Puddle-duck and Jeremy Fisher. But whatever the tale, both children and adults alike can be delighted by the artistry in Potter's illustrations, while they also enjoy a very good read. Because they have always been completely true to a child's experience, Potter's 23 books continue to endure.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47108
- Title
- THE TALE OF MRS. TITTLEMOUSE.
- Author
- POTTER, BEATRIX .:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Warne, 1910.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- beatrix potter children's illustrated book dressed mice mouse
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
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About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
Glossary
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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