Beschreibung:

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mr. Tod, 1st edition, London: Warne, 1912, first or second issue (with date on title), half-title (lightly spotted), 15 colour illustrations (including frontispiece), black & white illustrations in text, pictorial endpapers, rear pastedown with booksellers ticket at foot, stitching showing (but firm), edges spotted, original buff boards, front cover with inset colour pictorial panel, minimally rubbed in places, top corners lightly bumped, 16mo, together with: The Tale of Mr. Tod, New York: Warne, circa 1921, half-title, colour frontispiece and 13 (of 14) colour plates (lacking p.31), black & white illustrations in text, generally toned throughout, pictorial endpapers (lightly spotted), blank reverse to rear free endpaper with booksellers ticket, original grey boards, front cover with inset colour pictorial panel, some extremities lightly bumped, pictorial dust jacket, soiled and rubbed, some edge-fraying and chips, front panel creased with adhesive tape repairs to verso of tears and loss to upper left corner, 16mo (Qty: 2) First item: Linder p.429; Quinby 21. Second item: A rare survival of an unusual dust jacket design. The more common dust jacket simply repeats the image of Mr. Tod from the front cover, whereas this jacket makes use of the endpapers design seen in Quinby X. This book and jacket can be dated to circa 1921 due to: Warne's address (26 East 22d Street), no mention of Cecily Parsley in advertisements, but the French editions of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny (both published 1921) are listed as new editions, with no other French titles yet available.