Buy this book on-line POTTER,BEATRIX [HELEN]**: : HISTOIRE DE POUPETTE-A-L'EPINGLE.[THE TALE OF MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE.]LONDON.FREDERICK WARNE & CO.LTD.,[nd]. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,16mo HB,pictorial onlay card bds,1st French edn,minus dw/dj.[Originally first published in a trade and a deluxe
edn,1905.Translated from the English by Victorine Ballon & Julienne Profichet into French text.This is the first French edition.Though undated,believed to be circa 1921/
22(?) as two other titles; Pierre Lupin ('Peter Rabbit) and Jeannot Lapin ('Benjamin Bunny') were published also in French,in 1921] VG.Neatly handwritten blue ink gift presentation inscrptn to top half of half-title page.Grey
paper-covered card bds slightly grubbed/marked and with light staining,but with negligible shelf-wear to edges and sharp corners.Colour pictorial paper onlay cartouche (vertical rectangle with corners part-circularly trimmed)
and bright,crisp,stamped green ink lettering to front bd and to the spine/backstrip too.Top edges inevitably,but lightly dust-soiled and therefore slightly aged,fore-edges brighter and cleaner; sewn-in signatures contents bright,tight,clean - solid and sound - no dog-ear reading
creases to any pages' corners - could be unread,apart from my own collation? UK,16mo HB,pictorial onlay card bds,1st French edn,minus dw/dj,8-85pp [paginated] includes 26 (frntis included) bright,crisp and clean,
circular colour pictorial illustrations by Beatrix Potter,throughout the text and the book,with all the text in French.Plus [unpaginated] bright,crisp,clean,
colour pictorial illustrated endpapers,half-title page,
colour pictorial illustrated frntis,b/w line vignette illustrated title-page.Though grubbed externally and near
pristine internally - this is still a really exceptional example of a highly collectable issue and a particularly
SCARCE version and edition to boot.
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