Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, first edition, first or second printing with notice board lettering on p.14, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, original green boards with mounted colour illustration, spine a little dulled and minor bumping to spine ends but overall a remarkably sharp, excellent copy, [Linder p.428; Quinby 16], 16mo , 1909. ⁂ Beatrix Potter wrote to Harold Warne in autumn 1908 with three new works for potential publication: a story written years before and set in Rye which became The Faithful Dove; a tale based around the village shop in Sawrey which became The Tale of Ginger and Pickles (see next lot) and a third work, a sequel to The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, which became the present work. For the illustrations, which are regarded as amongst her finest, the author drew upon the semi-formal gardens of her aunt and uncle, based in Gwaenynog, Denbigh.
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, first edition, first or second printing with notice board lettering on p.14, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, original green boards with mounted colour illustration, spine a little dulled and minor bumping to spine ends but overall a remarkably sharp, excellent copy, [Linder p.428; Quinby 16], 16mo , 1909. ⁂ Beatrix Potter wrote to Harold Warne in autumn 1908 with three new works for potential publication: a story written years before and set in Rye which became The Faithful Dove; a tale based around the village shop in Sawrey which became The Tale of Ginger and Pickles (see next lot) and a third work, a sequel to The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, which became the present work. For the illustrations, which are regarded as amongst her finest, the author drew upon the semi-formal gardens of her aunt and uncle, based in Gwaenynog, Denbigh.
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