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c1915 The Pie and The Patty-Pan
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
An early edition, with 1905 on the copyright page, but conforming largely to Quinby 9b, aside from the presence of the comma after Joan and the period after Baby on the verso of the half title.
Illustrated by Potter with a colour frontispiece and nine further colour plates, alongside vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.
A charming children's story about a cat named Ribby throwing a tea party for her friends. It deals with themes like domesticity and the lives of rural people during in the Victorian era.
Lacking the front free endpaper.
This work was written and illustrated by renowned Victorian children's author Beatrix Potter, her most famous stories being 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'.
Condition
In the publisher's original paper covered boards, with pictorial onlay to front board. Boards bright. Lacking lower half of back strip. Joints starting, with boards weakly held. Lacking front free endpaper. Internally, binding strained throughout. Pages clean and bright, with only the odd light handling mark.
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