POTTER, BEATRIX. Wag-by-Wall. Boston: The Horn Book, Inc., 1944. Mounted photographic frontispiece of Beatrix Potter and Alison Hart, woodcut title-vignette and 4 woodcut decorations by J.J. Lankes. Small 8vo, original fawn buckram, leaf pattern endpapers; dust jacket, closed tear on upper panel, otherwise fine; quarter morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION. Quinby 32; Linder, p. 432; V & A 1722 and 1722a -- The Tale of the Faithful Dove. New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Inc., [1956]. 7 black and white vignettes [by Elsie Wrigley]. Small 8vo, original fawn cloth, lettered in blue; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, one of 2500 copies printed in this smaller size (binding measuring 16 x 11.8 cm.) and having a cream color dust jacket printed in black. The name of the illustrator is not acknowledged here, and known only from an early Horn Book advertisement. Linder, p. 432; not in V & A. (2)
POTTER, BEATRIX. Wag-by-Wall. Boston: The Horn Book, Inc., 1944. Mounted photographic frontispiece of Beatrix Potter and Alison Hart, woodcut title-vignette and 4 woodcut decorations by J.J. Lankes. Small 8vo, original fawn buckram, leaf pattern endpapers; dust jacket, closed tear on upper panel, otherwise fine; quarter morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION. Quinby 32; Linder, p. 432; V & A 1722 and 1722a -- The Tale of the Faithful Dove. New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Inc., [1956]. 7 black and white vignettes [by Elsie Wrigley]. Small 8vo, original fawn cloth, lettered in blue; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, one of 2500 copies printed in this smaller size (binding measuring 16 x 11.8 cm.) and having a cream color dust jacket printed in black. The name of the illustrator is not acknowledged here, and known only from an early Horn Book advertisement. Linder, p. 432; not in V & A. (2)
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