Frederick Warne Edition 2nd (3 results)

Board book. Condition: Fair. 2nd. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

8vo. ix[i], 310pp, portrait frontis, 11 plates, text figures. Original decorated blue cloth gilt. Extremes very lightly rubbed; spotting to leaf-edges; inked relevant comments to reverse of frontis and foot of page 3.

Condition: Good. Colour plates printed one side only, but other side counted in the pagination. Later printings are on both sides thus have many fewer pages. 16mo, 139x102mm page size. Grey-green boards with larger rectangular onlay (corners worn, lacks spine paper, neatly rebacked in matching cloth) 93pp +[1]p unnumbered last text page. Rear free endpaper has list on notice board of "Peter Rabbit" Books ending with Timmy Tiptoes [1911], then "The First Volumes of a new Series are - The Tale of Mr. Tod & The Tale of Pigling Bland". Pages crisp, no writing, no tears, no loose pages. *Pigling Bland was the last of Beatrix Potter's books published before she became Mrs. Heelis on October 14th 1913 (Leslie Linder, pp 217,429). 1 volume. Hardcover.…