Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Tom Kitten, first edition, 1907.

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Tom Kitten, first edition, first, second or third printing, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, slight surface abrasions to p.85 affecting text, one or two pp. splitting, overall holding firm, occasional spotting, finger-soiling and marginal water-staining, bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown, original green boards with mounted colour illustration, spine slightly sunned, neat repairs to backstrip, splitting at lower joint, surface abrasion to upper cover, spine ends and corner tips lightly rubbed, housed in a custom drop back box, spine gilt, [Linder p.427; Quinby 13], 16mo, Warne, 1907.

Estimate:£200

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