First edition of this tragic tale of a hare who finds out her animal friends are of the fair weather sort when she is being chased by hunters.
Very good plus.
Price: $80.00
Otley, a scenic market town outside Leeds, may not have been a hub of British publishing, but it was ideally situated to produce cheap reading material to be sold around the Eastern Midlands. Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co., located in Otley, published both chapbooks like this title and schoolbooks.
Read more: Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, vol. 1 page 64; Gumuchian, Livres de l'Enfance, item 1590.
Otley: Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co., Limited, [circa 1840s]. 6.75'' x 4.25''. Original pictorial wrapper, saddle-stitched. Eight woodcut illustrations, four of which are hand-colored. [8] pages. Wrapper with a bit of foxing to edges. Leaves with scattered foxing; small area of offsetting from color to verso of first leaf. Sound.
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