Author: POTTER, Beatrix
Title: Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, the
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1903. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin In the Publisher's Deluxe Binding 'Flowered Lavender Chintz' POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1903. First edition, third printing, with “1903” and the words “Author of ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ on the title-page. Twelvemo (5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches; 140 x 108 mm.). 84, [2] pp. Twenty-seven full-page color illustrations, including frontispiece. Black and white vignette on title-page. Publisher's deluxe binding of 'flowered lavender chintz' over boards. Front cover with two white cloth gilt lettering labels, spine very slightly darkened, color pictorial endpapers (Quinby I). Ink signature, dated Christmas 1912, on verso of front free endpaper. A near fine copy. Housed in a red cloth clamshell case, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt. The floral cloth fabric, which was also used on the deluxe binding of The Tailor of Gloucester, came from Beatrix Potter’s grandfather’s firm, Edmund Potter & Co. of Dinting Vale, Manchester. Beatrix Potter referred to these two books as “bound in a flowered lavender chintz, very pretty” (see Linder). “Apparently there were no first printing sheets bound in fabric” (V & A Collection 1653). A near fine copy of the book that had its origins in an American story Beatrix referenced in one of her famous picture letters, this time to to Noel Moore. The scenery for the illustrations was derived from the author's summer stays near Keswick around Derwentwater, whilst the squirrels were taken from two she had purchased in 1903, noting to a friend in a letter "I am trying to make a squirrel book at present, I have got a very pretty little model; I bought two but they weren't a pair, and fought so frightfully that l had to get rid of the handsomer - and most savage one - The other squirrel is rather a nice animal, but half one ear has been bitten off, which spoils his appearance!" Linder, pp. 138-140 and 423. Quinby 5A (third copy). .
Keywords: Illustrated Books
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Title: Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, the
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1903. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin In the Publisher's Deluxe Binding 'Flowered Lavender Chintz' POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1903. First edition, third printing, with “1903” and the words “Author of ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ on the title-page. Twelvemo (5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches; 140 x 108 mm.). 84, [2] pp. Twenty-seven full-page color illustrations, including frontispiece. Black and white vignette on title-page. Publisher's deluxe binding of 'flowered lavender chintz' over boards. Front cover with two white cloth gilt lettering labels, spine very slightly darkened, color pictorial endpapers (Quinby I). Ink signature, dated Christmas 1912, on verso of front free endpaper. A near fine copy. Housed in a red cloth clamshell case, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt. The floral cloth fabric, which was also used on the deluxe binding of The Tailor of Gloucester, came from Beatrix Potter’s grandfather’s firm, Edmund Potter & Co. of Dinting Vale, Manchester. Beatrix Potter referred to these two books as “bound in a flowered lavender chintz, very pretty” (see Linder). “Apparently there were no first printing sheets bound in fabric” (V & A Collection 1653). A near fine copy of the book that had its origins in an American story Beatrix referenced in one of her famous picture letters, this time to to Noel Moore. The scenery for the illustrations was derived from the author's summer stays near Keswick around Derwentwater, whilst the squirrels were taken from two she had purchased in 1903, noting to a friend in a letter "I am trying to make a squirrel book at present, I have got a very pretty little model; I bought two but they weren't a pair, and fought so frightfully that l had to get rid of the handsomer - and most savage one - The other squirrel is rather a nice animal, but half one ear has been bitten off, which spoils his appearance!" Linder, pp. 138-140 and 423. Quinby 5A (third copy). .
Keywords: Illustrated Books
Price: US$ 4500.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 06092
- Book number: 06092
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