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1918 The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
The first edition, second state, with the 'N' as the final letter of 'London' present to the title page tail. This is lacking in the first state.
Quinby No. 25, with plate XV endpapers, as called for.
'The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse' is based on Aesop's fable 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse', following a country mouse and a city mouse who visit one another in their own homes.
Beautifully illustrated in colour in Potter's typical style, with a frontispiece and twenty-six colour plates. Collated, complete.
Housed in a protective paper dust wrapper.
Condition
In the publisher's original paper covered boards with pictorial onlay. A touch of shelf wear to back strip tail otherwise externally fine. Housed in a protective paper dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.
Fine
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