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The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck

Beatrix Potter, 1908

    Price Realised USD 5,670
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    The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck

    Beatrix Potter, 1908

    Price Realised USD 5,670
    Price Realised USD 5,670
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    POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck. London: Frederick Warne, 1908.

    Presentation copy, signed and poetically inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “To Mr. Dixon of Howe End, these curious happenings amongst the foxgloves in Bishop’s Wood are presented by the author / with kind regards from Beatrix Heelis.” Linder, p. 427; Quinby 14.

    12mo. Color frontispiece and 26 color plates by Beatrix Potter. Original green boards with pictorial cover label, pictorial endpapers (light wear to extremities, sunning, short edge-tear to f.f.e. touching illustration). Custom cloth chemise, slipcase. Provenance: Mr. Dixon (presentation inscription) – Doris Frohnsdorff (her sale, Christie’s East, 16 April 1997, lot 71).
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