POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Pigling Bland. (PRESENTATION COPY - LATER EDITION - 1918)

AUTHOR: POTTER, Beatrix. 

TITLE: The Tale of Pigling Bland.

PUBLISHER: London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, [after 1918],

DESCRIPTION: PRESENTATION COPY LATER EDITION. 1 vol., inscribed on the half-title by the author 'with kind regards from Beatrix Potter', and with additional ink inscription 'To Peggy, from Mrs Postlethwaite & Mary, Sept. 8th 1933', 15 colour plates (including frontispiece), black & white illustrations to text, pictorial endpapers, original pale green pictorial boards.

CONDITION: Inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, spine slightly darkened, internally clean and bright, a VERY GOOD coy seldom seen inscribed.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Postlethwaite family lived at High Green Gate near to Castle Cottage, Beatrix Potter's Lakeland home after 1909. It is likely that this book was originally given to the Postlethwaite family (probably to one of the girls, Mary or Amanda) as a gift from Beatrix, and they then later gave it away to a friend 'Peggy'.