Author: POTTER, Beatrix
Title: Tale of Little Pig Robinson, the
Description: 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 Taylor. Beatrix Potter's Letters, p. 447). “There is no year on the title-page. The first printing can be identified by the absence of the word ‘reprinted’ which appears on the back of the title-page of the next printing” (Linder). The Tale of Little Pig Robinson is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter as part of the Peter Rabbit series. The book contains eight chapters and numerous illustrations. Though the book was one of Potter's last publications in 1930, it was one of the first stories she wrote. Potter introduces the story as her explanation of how the pig from Edward Lear's poem, "The Owl and the Pussycat" comes to travel to the "land where the Bong-Tree grows". Little Pig Robinson's aunts, Miss Porcas and Miss Dorcas, send him to the market to sell produce from their farm and purchase certain items they need. On his way home from the market, Little Pig Robinson is stopped by a sailor who offers him an array of goods and an opportunity to travel. Little Pig Robinson agrees to the sailor's offer and goes with the sailor to the ship. There, the sailor tells Little Pig Robinson to go down and help himself to "muffins and crumpets". The sailors then leave the dock and Little Pig Robinson quickly realizes he has been kidnapped. He further realizes that the sailor he had met at the market was in truth the ship's cook who had planned to turn Little Pig Robinson into a fine feast for the ship's men. With the help of the ship's resident cat, Little Pig Robinson escapes on a row boat and finds his way to "the land where the Bong tree grows". Some time later Pig Robinson meets the The Owl and the Pussycat there. A story inspired by Edward Lear's nonsense poem The Owl and the Pussy Cat and set against "a comprehensive sample of our much battered coasts" (according to a letter from the author in 1941), Pig Robinson was the last of the Peter Rabbit series. It was however one of the earliest stories Beatrix conceived, its fruition dating back to a holiday in Ilfracombe in 1883. To smooth ruffled feathers at Frederick Warne after giving American publishers David McKay The Fairy Caravan (see Lot 36), Beatrix offered Pig Robinson to both for publication, though the American edition contains twelve more pen & ink illustrations and numerous additional head- & tail-pieces. The use of the 'word' "fatterer" did initially perturb publishers McKay, but they acquiesced when the author explained "I agree with all your corrections, except possibly 'fatterer! Of course there is no such word; but it is expressive!" Linder, p. 432; Quinby 30. .
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Title: Tale of Little Pig Robinson, the
Description: 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 Taylor. Beatrix Potter's Letters, p. 447). “There is no year on the title-page. The first printing can be identified by the absence of the word ‘reprinted’ which appears on the back of the title-page of the next printing” (Linder). The Tale of Little Pig Robinson is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter as part of the Peter Rabbit series. The book contains eight chapters and numerous illustrations. Though the book was one of Potter's last publications in 1930, it was one of the first stories she wrote. Potter introduces the story as her explanation of how the pig from Edward Lear's poem, "The Owl and the Pussycat" comes to travel to the "land where the Bong-Tree grows". Little Pig Robinson's aunts, Miss Porcas and Miss Dorcas, send him to the market to sell produce from their farm and purchase certain items they need. On his way home from the market, Little Pig Robinson is stopped by a sailor who offers him an array of goods and an opportunity to travel. Little Pig Robinson agrees to the sailor's offer and goes with the sailor to the ship. There, the sailor tells Little Pig Robinson to go down and help himself to "muffins and crumpets". The sailors then leave the dock and Little Pig Robinson quickly realizes he has been kidnapped. He further realizes that the sailor he had met at the market was in truth the ship's cook who had planned to turn Little Pig Robinson into a fine feast for the ship's men. With the help of the ship's resident cat, Little Pig Robinson escapes on a row boat and finds his way to "the land where the Bong tree grows". Some time later Pig Robinson meets the The Owl and the Pussycat there. A story inspired by Edward Lear's nonsense poem The Owl and the Pussy Cat and set against "a comprehensive sample of our much battered coasts" (according to a letter from the author in 1941), Pig Robinson was the last of the Peter Rabbit series. It was however one of the earliest stories Beatrix conceived, its fruition dating back to a holiday in Ilfracombe in 1883. To smooth ruffled feathers at Frederick Warne after giving American publishers David McKay The Fairy Caravan (see Lot 36), Beatrix offered Pig Robinson to both for publication, though the American edition contains twelve more pen & ink illustrations and numerous additional head- & tail-pieces. The use of the 'word' "fatterer" did initially perturb publishers McKay, but they acquiesced when the author explained "I agree with all your corrections, except possibly 'fatterer! Of course there is no such word; but it is expressive!" Linder, p. 432; Quinby 30. .
Keywords: Illustrated Books Inscribed Copies
Price: US$ 9500.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 06118
- Book number: 06118
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