POTTER, Beatrix.

£575 · Offered by Peter Harrington

Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes. First edition. There were two impressions of the first edition, which are identical. The collection comprises eight rhymes, of which Peter Opie remarked "one or two of them are delicious" (Linder, p. 228). When Potter received her first copies of the book, "she was delighted with them and wrote 'I am much pleased... it makes a pretty little book'" (Linder, p. 228).In early 1917, Potter's publishers faced financial ruin after Harold Warne was convicted of forgery. Potter agreed to produce a new Christmas work to aid the company, and suggested this work, the drawings for which were originally set aside with the death of Norman Warne in August 1905. Potter wrote to Fruing Warne that "the old drawings are some of them better than any I could do now" (Taylor, p. 140).

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