POTTER, Beatrix. The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit . London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1916]. 12 o. Title vignette and 15 color illustrations. Original light tan paper boards, upper cover with inset circular color pictorial label, color pictorial endpapers (front: Linder 11; rear: pre-date Linder 12), upper cover with a section scraped (slightly affecting border of inset label). Provenance : Laura Richardson (hand-colored bookplate designed by H.Wagstaff on frontispiece recto); Doris Frohnsdorff (sale Christie's East, 16 April 1997, lot 61). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, with only six titles listed on the noticeboard on the rear free endpaper. The frontispiece is new, being a larger version of the half-tone illustration which appeared on the mounted "title-page" of the panoramic edition. Also new, is the title-page vignette. Quinby 12A; not in V & A.
POTTER, Beatrix. The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit . London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1916]. 12 o. Title vignette and 15 color illustrations. Original light tan paper boards, upper cover with inset circular color pictorial label, color pictorial endpapers (front: Linder 11; rear: pre-date Linder 12), upper cover with a section scraped (slightly affecting border of inset label). Provenance : Laura Richardson (hand-colored bookplate designed by H.Wagstaff on frontispiece recto); Doris Frohnsdorff (sale Christie's East, 16 April 1997, lot 61). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, with only six titles listed on the noticeboard on the rear free endpaper. The frontispiece is new, being a larger version of the half-tone illustration which appeared on the mounted "title-page" of the panoramic edition. Also new, is the title-page vignette. Quinby 12A; not in V & A.
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