The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
Potter, Beatrix
Frederick Warne and Co.
Potter, Beatrix
159
[7], 8-84pp, [2]. Original boards in DJ, illustrated endpapers. Original glassine DJ, price to foot of spine, with text to rear panel and flaps.
Large closed tear across the front panel and spine with very minor chipping to edges. Title to spine, title to head of upper cover, with author and publisher to foot, in between is a triangle with rounded points and curved edges, inside which is pasted a colour illustration of rabbits.
Covers very slightly faded, very minor rubbing. Internally quite bright and clean.
With a frontispiece and twenty-six full page colour illustrations (as called for). Now housed in a velvet lined, cloth drop back box, made by Temple Bookbinders, with title to spine, title and author to upper cover, with the illustration from the front cover of the book replicated on the upper cover of the box.
The first three impressions all have 1909 on the title page, the illustration on page 14 does not have the notice board, indicating a third impression (see Linder page 428).
Quinby 16, Linder, pages 195-196
24mo
Good+
Fair
Hardback
London
1909
Reprint
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