Beschreibung:

Potter (Beatrix). Peter Rabbit's Almanac for 1929, Frederick Warne, [1928], 13 full-page colour illustrations (one for each month plus frontispiece), patterned endpapers, biro ownership name on front free endpaper, original beige boards with colour illustration inset to covers, lightly dust-soiled and marked, spine rubbed and a little chipped, joints cracked, 12mo, together with Wood (Lawson), The Hamper of "Mr." Books, 1st edition, Frederick Warne, [1916], complete set of six booklets, each with colour illustrations and pictorial wrappers, staples rusty, plus a Warne advertisement booklet 'A Selected List of Picture Books for Children' (folded), contained together in original cardboard box (rubbed and broken), plus Nister (Ernest, publisher), Our Darlings Surprise Pictures, circa 1895, eight chromolithograph slatted movable illustrations (all in working order), letterpress vignettes, some spotting and marks, soiled with area of loss to fore-margins (also affecting lower cover), patterned endpapers, hinges split, original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, rubbed and marked, folio, and a quantity of other children's books, including a defective copy in original wrappers of A True History of a Little Old Woman who found a Silver Penny, by Matthew Gregory Lewis, printed for Richard Phillips 1812, a shaped book entitled Three Little Doggies, four titles by Louis Wain, three little books by Kate Greenaway (one modern), two by Kathleen Ainslie, several Dean Rag Books, and a movable entitled Fun in the Forest published by Raphael Tuck, some defective (Qty: 24) The first item is the only Beatrix Potter almanac produced; the author was unhappy with the finished article, and so the planned series of almanacs did not go ahead.