Oblong 24mo (83 x 105 mm). 8pp. 5 color-printed illustrations. Original printed stapled wrappers with advertisements including "Compliments of the Oakville Company Makers of the Clinton Safety Pin and the Sovran Pin" on the front cover (some soiling, a few very tiny chips, separations along spine fold). 

THE VERY RARE PIRATED AMERICAN EDITION of Potter's first work, identifying her as only "H. B. P.", and the first printing of any of Potter's books in America.  The piracy contains inferior reproductions of Potter's illustrations, and the text comprises the original verse of "Bunny the Postman" and "Benjamin Bunny" from Potter's work written by Frederic Weatherly.  A third verse in this pirated edition, "Waiting for the Train," was not included in Potter's work. The present copy includes advertisements for safety pins and straight pins manufactured by the Oakville Company of Waterbury Connecticut.  VERY RARE: The sale of the Schiller collection included four copies of this rare piracy, and the catalog for that sale cites only ten known copies of this pirated edition, each featuring advertisements for a different company.