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The Pie and the Patty-Pan. by Beatrix POTTER

Creator: BEATRIX POTTER
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
POTTER, Beatrix.
The Pie and the Patty-Pan.
Stock Code 109465
London, Frederick Warne and Co., 1908

Current price£100.00
A good, quite early edition, in larger format than the usual Beatrix Potter titles (this was changed in 1930, when it was reissued to The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pen in the standard format). 'The early printings have plain mottled lavender end-papers, which were shortly replaced by an end-paper design featuring a pie and a patty-pan [this copy has the latter]. The cover picture was then changed from a cat in a small circle, to one of Ribby sitting by the fire, in a large circle' (Linder). This copy has the earlier format for the front cover

The book is also responsible for inspiring one of the rarest Beswick figurines, 'Duchess with flowers'.

Early edition; small 4to (178 x 138 mm); colour frontispiece and 9 colour plates (included in pagination), 21 vignettes in black and white, gutter split at pp 29 and 40 (as is often) but firm, sporadic foxing but not affecting colour plates; publisher's red boards with mounted colour illustration on upper cover, lettered and panelled in white, pie and patty-pan endpapers with contemporary gift inscription, dated '1908' , spine faded, small restorations to head of spine and rear board, light dust-soling, otherwise a good copy.

More Information

Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	1900-1919
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Dealer Reference #:	109465
Incollect Reference #:	666328

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