The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse.
$5,830 · Offered by Biblio
London, Frederick Warne, 1910. . First or second printing, deluxe issue; 16mo (140 x 103 mm; colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, contemporary ink gift inscription dated Christmas 1910 to half-title, a hint of finger-soiling to p. 9 and minor, faint spot opposite, else near-fine; publisher's blue cloth with fielded illustrative paste-down of Mrs. Tittlemouse, all edges gilt, tiny puncture to rear joint and a hint of rubbing to boards (as one would expect), otherwise a rare, near-fine copy preserved in a custom-made solander box. The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse was published with the boards in either blue or brown but neither has priority over the other. Linder p.429; not in Quinby.
- Publisher: London, Frederick Warne, 1910.
- Printing: later
- Binding: hardcover
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