Author: POTTER, Beatrix
Title: Fairy Caravan, the
Description: Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1929. A Fine Copy of Beatrix Potter’s “Fairy Caravan” POTTER, Beatrix. The Fairy Caravan. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1929]. First edition. Small quarto (8 5/16 x 6 3/8 inches; 211 x 162 mm.). 225, [3, blank] pp. Color frontispiece and five color plates, twenty full-page illustrations in black and white, and forty-two vignette illustrations in black and white. Publisher's dark green cloth with a large rectangular color pictorial label on front cover. Spine lettered in gilt. Large bookplate on verso of front free endpaper. Gilt on spine faded, otherwise a near fine copy. “It was intended that this book should be printed only in America, and would contain some of the writings about [Beatrix Potter’s] farm animals in a fairy caravan setting, pieced together with fragments of her miscellaneous unpublished work- It is about a travelling circus known as Alexander and William’s Circus, which was invisible to humans- Apart from the numerous pen-and-ink drawings for The Fairy Caravan, there were to be a number of coloured illustrations” (Linder, pp. 292-294). Linder, p. 431. Quinby 29A. V & A 1713. Convinced by the Philadelphia publisher Alexander McKay that she should publish another book, Beatrix Potter decided to target the American market only with this work, worried that the stories involved were too personal or too local to the Lake District for the British public. However, in order to secure copyright 1oo copies were produced with the first 9 leaves printed in Ambleside under the name Beatrix Heelis and without the preface written especially for her American readers. Alongside the American trade edition, a run of 100 copies were produced separately for her American friends and as gifts to be distributed at the discretion of the publisher, each with a sheet signed by the author. .
Keywords: Illustrated Books
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Title: Fairy Caravan, the
Description: Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1929. A Fine Copy of Beatrix Potter’s “Fairy Caravan” POTTER, Beatrix. The Fairy Caravan. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1929]. First edition. Small quarto (8 5/16 x 6 3/8 inches; 211 x 162 mm.). 225, [3, blank] pp. Color frontispiece and five color plates, twenty full-page illustrations in black and white, and forty-two vignette illustrations in black and white. Publisher's dark green cloth with a large rectangular color pictorial label on front cover. Spine lettered in gilt. Large bookplate on verso of front free endpaper. Gilt on spine faded, otherwise a near fine copy. “It was intended that this book should be printed only in America, and would contain some of the writings about [Beatrix Potter’s] farm animals in a fairy caravan setting, pieced together with fragments of her miscellaneous unpublished work- It is about a travelling circus known as Alexander and William’s Circus, which was invisible to humans- Apart from the numerous pen-and-ink drawings for The Fairy Caravan, there were to be a number of coloured illustrations” (Linder, pp. 292-294). Linder, p. 431. Quinby 29A. V & A 1713. Convinced by the Philadelphia publisher Alexander McKay that she should publish another book, Beatrix Potter decided to target the American market only with this work, worried that the stories involved were too personal or too local to the Lake District for the British public. However, in order to secure copyright 1oo copies were produced with the first 9 leaves printed in Ambleside under the name Beatrix Heelis and without the preface written especially for her American readers. Alongside the American trade edition, a run of 100 copies were produced separately for her American friends and as gifts to be distributed at the discretion of the publisher, each with a sheet signed by the author. .
Keywords: Illustrated Books
Price: US$ 650.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 06117
- Book number: 06117
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