Tale of Little Pig Robinson, The

by POTTER, Beatrix

$9,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1930. First Edition of “Little Pig Robinson,” in the Original Dust Jacket Inscribed by Beatrix Potter on the Front Free Endpaper POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Little Pig Robinson. London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd. [1930]. First edition, second printing. Inscribed by Beatrix Potter on the front free endpaper. Small quarto (7 15/16 x 6 1/4 inches; 202 x 160 mm.). 96 pp. Inserted color frontispiece and five inserted color plates. Black and white vignette on title-page and twenty-two full-page black and white illustrations in the text. Publisher's blue cloth with front cover lettered in gilt and dark brown and pictorially stamped in dark brown, all within a dark brown single rule border. Spine lettered in dark brown. Brown and white pictorial endpapers. Inscribed by Beatrix Potter on the front free endpaper "To Sarah Hilda Whitaker/from Beatrix Potter/Christmas 1930". Loosely inserted is a Beatrix Potter Christmas Card with small characters dancing around a Christmas Tree. In the original blue dust jacket with color pictorial label on front panel and with advertisements on the rear panel for “The Peter Rabbit Books” listing twenty-two titles. Dust jacket very slightly worn at extremities, small piece missing from the foot of the spine and the colored vignette torn away at the top and lower corner. A fine presentation copy. Sarah Hilda Whitaker was most likely the daughter of the Rev. Edmund Juxton Wemyss Whitaker, Vicar of Bath. (see Judy Tay

• Publisher: London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1930
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: unknown

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