Roly-Poly Pudding, The
$16,500 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed
London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1908. From the Author of 'Tom Kitten'" The Presentation Copy Sent by Beatrix Potter to the Little Girl Who Asked What Happened to Tom Kitten With Potter's Three-Page Autograph Letter Explaining the Gift POTTER, Beatrix. The Roly-Poly Pudding. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1908. First edition, second printing, one of 5,500 copies printed in December 1908, with the date "1908" on the title-page but with the words "All rights reserved" omitted from its foot. Small quarto (7 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 200 x 158 mm.). [8], 69, [1] pp. Color frontispiece, color pictorial title-page, and seventeen additional full-page color illustrations by Beatrix Potter; thirty-eight black-and-white text illustrations. Publisher's original red cloth woven with mixed light and dark threads over beveled boards, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt and light green with mounted color illustration, spine lettered in light green. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plates V and VI). On the verso of the title-page is a small red stamp "Autograph / Collection," beneath which is written in pencil "September 1955 / Gift / Mrs Warren Gleason." "177252" stamped in black, with additional pencil notations "G/. Case / J/F/Pot." Printed bookplate of The Robbins Library on front pastedown. Small area (3/4 x 2 3/8 inches) of surface loss at upper right corner of front free endpaper where a label has been removed. A near fine, bright copy. Inscribed by Beatrix Potter on the half-title: "For
- Publisher: London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1908
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: unknown
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