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The Tale of Jeremy Fisher. by BEATRIX POTTER

Creator: BEATRIX POTTER
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
POTTER, BEATRIX.
The Tale of Jeremy Fisher.
Stock Code 99398
London, Frederick Warne, 1906
£750
First edition in the deluxe format of The Tale of Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter, a rare edition.

Description
First edition, first or second printing, deluxe issue; 16mo; 27 colour plates, plain title vignette and colour pictorial endpapers by Beatrix Potter, 2 plates with superficial loss due to adhesion to facing pages, frontispiece lightly touched up to blank recto where cracking slightly, red run from cloth affecting fore-edge and lower fore-corner of most ff., with further impact to preliminary leaves, some other light soiling and finger-marking; publisher's lilac cloth with decorative gilt to design by Beatrix Potter, with inset colour illustration to upper cover, recased with hinges reinforced internally, some damp mottling and rubbing, presented in later cloth solander box.

Bibliography
cf. Quinby 10; cf. Linder p.426

Stock ID:99398

More Information

Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	1900-1919
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Dealer Reference #:	99398
Incollect Reference #:	618229

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