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Lot 340A
Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021
4:00AM CT
Lots 308-687
Nov 10, 2021
4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$875
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Lot Description
[POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943)] – A group of 3 books written and illustrated by Beatrix POTTER, comprising:
The Tale of Pigling Bland. 1913. Maroon boards. Provenance: Mildred Greenhill (bookplate); H. Bradley Martin (bookplate). --The Tale of Mr. Tod. 1912. Gray boards. Provenance: Mildred Greenhill (bookplate); gift inscription “To Kenneth From Geoffrey.” --The Tailor of Gloucester. Green boards. New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1903. Later American edition. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all published in London and New York by Frederick Warne & Co. (except where noted), all 16mo, FIRST EDITIONS (except where noted), color illustrated frontispieces, numerous colored plates, numerous woodcut illustrations. (Some occasional staining, some light toning.) All in original publisher’s colored boards, color pictorial labels to front cover, lettered in green or white. THE MILDRED GREENHILL COPIES of two of the works, one additionally from THE COLLECTION OF H. BRADLEY MARTIN.
Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence Blitch



