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POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904. Title vignette and 27 color illustrations. 12mo, original tan paper boards, upper cover with inset oval color pictorial label, color pictorial endpapers (Linder 2 & 3 [used twice]), owner's ink inscription on front free endpaper verso, otherwise fine; original printed glassine dust jacket, lined on verso and some large chips (text on rear panel intact. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "Muffatees" for "Muffetees" on p. 15. Quinby 6(1); Linder, p. 424.
The rear panel of the dust jacket quotes London's Daily Express: "'Miss Beatrix Potter is to be heartily congratulated on her new books. In these days, when so much trash for children is published, it is a boon to parents to come across a child's book of genuine humour.'"
The rear panel of the dust jacket quotes London's Daily Express: "'Miss Beatrix Potter is to be heartily congratulated on her new books. In these days, when so much trash for children is published, it is a boon to parents to come across a child's book of genuine humour.'"
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Doris Frohnsdorff Collection.