Author: POTTER, Beatrix
Title: Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, the
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1918. First Edition of Johnny Town-Mouse POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse. Londo[n]: Frederick Warne and Co. [1918]. First edition, first issue, printed December 1918; this copy has the final "N" in "London" missing on title-page (which occurs only in the earliest copies). Twelvemo (5 7/16 x 4 1/8 inches; 139 x 105 mm.). 84, [1], [1, blank] pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page. Publisher's gray-green boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white on spine. Color pictorial label on front cover within an irregularly shaped blind panel outlined in blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate XV). Minimal wear to head of spine, two ink names on blank verso of page 8, otherwise a very good copy. As suggested by the dedication ('To Aesop in the shaodws), Johnny Town-Mouse was inspired by Aesop's fable 'the town mouse and the country mouse', set against the Lakeland villages of Hawkeshead and Sawrey. The book went on sale for Christmas 1918 to a favourable reception, The Bookman in its Christmas Number for the year enthusing: "Oh, such charming pictures and exciting letterpress! We like Timmy-Willie, who was born in a garden, better than Johnny.. The pictures are among the very best Miss Potter has done.. The whole secret of Miss Potter's success lies in the fact that there are plenty of pictures for her impatient audience, and that the pictures can be readily understood, and that the story is just modulated to the right tone to please a child's ear. Miss Potter need not worry about rivals. She has none.' Linder, p. 430; Quinby 25. .
Keywords: Illustrated Books
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Title: Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, the
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1918. First Edition of Johnny Town-Mouse POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse. Londo[n]: Frederick Warne and Co. [1918]. First edition, first issue, printed December 1918; this copy has the final "N" in "London" missing on title-page (which occurs only in the earliest copies). Twelvemo (5 7/16 x 4 1/8 inches; 139 x 105 mm.). 84, [1], [1, blank] pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page. Publisher's gray-green boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white on spine. Color pictorial label on front cover within an irregularly shaped blind panel outlined in blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate XV). Minimal wear to head of spine, two ink names on blank verso of page 8, otherwise a very good copy. As suggested by the dedication ('To Aesop in the shaodws), Johnny Town-Mouse was inspired by Aesop's fable 'the town mouse and the country mouse', set against the Lakeland villages of Hawkeshead and Sawrey. The book went on sale for Christmas 1918 to a favourable reception, The Bookman in its Christmas Number for the year enthusing: "Oh, such charming pictures and exciting letterpress! We like Timmy-Willie, who was born in a garden, better than Johnny.. The pictures are among the very best Miss Potter has done.. The whole secret of Miss Potter's success lies in the fact that there are plenty of pictures for her impatient audience, and that the pictures can be readily understood, and that the story is just modulated to the right tone to please a child's ear. Miss Potter need not worry about rivals. She has none.' Linder, p. 430; Quinby 25. .
Keywords: Illustrated Books
Price: US$ 1650.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 06113
- Book number: 06113
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