16mo. Color illustrated frontispiece, 9 color illustrations, numerous woodcut illustrations. (Some very light toning.) All in original publisher’s tan boards, color pictorial label to front cover, stamp-lettered in dark green to front cover and spine, color pictorial endsheets (some light rubbing). Provenance: R. Teasdale (signature, struck). 

 

Later edition of one of Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s books, SIGNED BY POTTER. The present work is a reprint of beloved children’s book illustrator and author, Potter’s 7th book of “The 23 Tales,” original published in 1905. While the precise dating of this edition is made difficult by the number of editions and reprints of Potter’s works, this present book must be after 1930 when the title was changed from “The Pie and the Patty-Pan” to “The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan.”