Author: POTTER, Beatrix
Title: Tale of the Faithful Dove, the
Description: New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Inc. 1956. The Tale of the Faithful Dove by Beatrix Potter One of 2,500 Copies POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of the Faithful Dove. New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Inc. [1956]. One of 2500 copies printed in this smaller size. Small octavo (6 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 155 x 114 mm.). [30] pp. Illustrated with seven vignette woodcuts by [Elsie Wrigley]. Publisher's buff cloth, front cover and spine lettered in blue. In the original pictorial dust jacket. A very fine copy. The name of the illustrator is not acknowledged here, and known only from an early Horn Book advertisement. "The Tale of the Faithful Dove tells the story of a pigeon called Mr. Vidler. In escaping from a hawk, his wife Amabella becomes trapped in the chimney of an empty house. She is befriended by a mouse, and eventually rescued with her new-born son, Tobias." (Linder. p. 338). "This little story was written by Beatrix Potter at Hastings, Sussex, England, in 1907. She wrote of the story: "This story is true but it happened in another seaside town, I think Folkestone. I used Winchelsea and Rye as back-ground." (front flap of dust jacket). The Tale of the Faithful Dove is one of Beatrix Potter’s lesser-known works. Unlike her more famous animal stories featuring characters like Peter Rabbit, this tale is a love story about two doves set against the backdrop of an English coastal town. There was an edition of 100 numbered copies published one year earlier in 1955. The first separate edition of a story originally penned in 1907 for the Warne children, rediscovered in 1918 by Fruing Warne, who expressed a preference for this title over the author's preferred Tale of Jenny Crow; "Beatrix jibbed at the 'rather namby pamby' pigeons, since they left little scope for pictorial variety - 'it is too much pigeon, over & over' - and she had never been good at birds." (Taylor, Whalley, Hobbs, Battrick]. Unfortunately the author could not be convinced to provide illustrations for this work, and Warne were not keen on using another illustrator that she recommended, and as a result the work was not published until 1955. Linder, p. 432; not in V & A. .
Keywords: Illustrated Books
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Title: Tale of the Faithful Dove, the
Description: New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Inc. 1956. The Tale of the Faithful Dove by Beatrix Potter One of 2,500 Copies POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of the Faithful Dove. New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Inc. [1956]. One of 2500 copies printed in this smaller size. Small octavo (6 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 155 x 114 mm.). [30] pp. Illustrated with seven vignette woodcuts by [Elsie Wrigley]. Publisher's buff cloth, front cover and spine lettered in blue. In the original pictorial dust jacket. A very fine copy. The name of the illustrator is not acknowledged here, and known only from an early Horn Book advertisement. "The Tale of the Faithful Dove tells the story of a pigeon called Mr. Vidler. In escaping from a hawk, his wife Amabella becomes trapped in the chimney of an empty house. She is befriended by a mouse, and eventually rescued with her new-born son, Tobias." (Linder. p. 338). "This little story was written by Beatrix Potter at Hastings, Sussex, England, in 1907. She wrote of the story: "This story is true but it happened in another seaside town, I think Folkestone. I used Winchelsea and Rye as back-ground." (front flap of dust jacket). The Tale of the Faithful Dove is one of Beatrix Potter’s lesser-known works. Unlike her more famous animal stories featuring characters like Peter Rabbit, this tale is a love story about two doves set against the backdrop of an English coastal town. There was an edition of 100 numbered copies published one year earlier in 1955. The first separate edition of a story originally penned in 1907 for the Warne children, rediscovered in 1918 by Fruing Warne, who expressed a preference for this title over the author's preferred Tale of Jenny Crow; "Beatrix jibbed at the 'rather namby pamby' pigeons, since they left little scope for pictorial variety - 'it is too much pigeon, over & over' - and she had never been good at birds." (Taylor, Whalley, Hobbs, Battrick]. Unfortunately the author could not be convinced to provide illustrations for this work, and Warne were not keen on using another illustrator that she recommended, and as a result the work was not published until 1955. Linder, p. 432; not in V & A. .
Keywords: Illustrated Books
Price: US$ 500.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 06122
- Book number: 06122
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