Author: POTTER, Beatrix
Title: Pie and the Patty-Pan, the
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1905. First Edition of The Pie and the Patty-Pan POTTER, Beatrix. The Pie and the Patty-Pan. London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1905. First edition, first printing. Small quarto (7 x 5 1/2 inches; 178 x 140 mm.). 51, [1, printer’s imprint] pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page. Publisher's blue-gray boards, front cover lettered in white, with circular pictorial label in color, spine lettered in white, mottled lavender endpapers. Spine very slightly faded, miniscule wear extremities. Still a near fine copy. Beatrix's favourite tale after Tailor of Gloucester, the illustrations of flowers and plants in doorways and gardens, taken from Sawrey, bringing a myriad of colors not previously associated with her work. The Pie and the Patty-Pan roams about the village of Sawrey, lingering over the tiger-lillies and snapdragons in cottage gardens, glancing into parlors and kitchens, pausing to admire a white-washed slate-roofed porch covered with purple clematis, and to consider the plants in cottage windows and the pumps in backyards. One or two of the street scenes were drawn in Hawkeshead, but the book is Beatrix Potter's praise of Sawrey, and contains many village details that she loved.' (Margaret Lane). The mottled lavender endpapers were the result of an oversight, no-one thinking to get a design prepared in time for the publication, and only remedied when the book was reissued some years later in a slightly different binding. Linder p. 425; Quinby 9. .
Keywords: Illustrated Books
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Title: Pie and the Patty-Pan, the
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1905. First Edition of The Pie and the Patty-Pan POTTER, Beatrix. The Pie and the Patty-Pan. London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1905. First edition, first printing. Small quarto (7 x 5 1/2 inches; 178 x 140 mm.). 51, [1, printer’s imprint] pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page. Publisher's blue-gray boards, front cover lettered in white, with circular pictorial label in color, spine lettered in white, mottled lavender endpapers. Spine very slightly faded, miniscule wear extremities. Still a near fine copy. Beatrix's favourite tale after Tailor of Gloucester, the illustrations of flowers and plants in doorways and gardens, taken from Sawrey, bringing a myriad of colors not previously associated with her work. The Pie and the Patty-Pan roams about the village of Sawrey, lingering over the tiger-lillies and snapdragons in cottage gardens, glancing into parlors and kitchens, pausing to admire a white-washed slate-roofed porch covered with purple clematis, and to consider the plants in cottage windows and the pumps in backyards. One or two of the street scenes were drawn in Hawkeshead, but the book is Beatrix Potter's praise of Sawrey, and contains many village details that she loved.' (Margaret Lane). The mottled lavender endpapers were the result of an oversight, no-one thinking to get a design prepared in time for the publication, and only remedied when the book was reissued some years later in a slightly different binding. Linder p. 425; Quinby 9. .
Keywords: Illustrated Books
Price: US$ 1250.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 06096
- Book number: 06096
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