THE TALE OF MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE
First edition of the story of little Lucie's encounter with a warm but surprisingly prickly laundry woman.
Very good.
Price: $1,250.00
THE TALE OF MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE
"Why! MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE was nothing but a HEDGEHOG!"
Like many of Beatrix Potter's animal characters, MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE is based on one of her pets: in this case, a hedgehog of the name (you guessed it) Tiggy-Winkle. In lieu of trying to wrangle Tiggy-Winkle into hedgehog-sized clothes, Potter used a "cottonwool dummy figure," but noted that the stand-in "terrified [her] rabbit" (Linder, 156). The sweet spiny laundry woman of who emerged from these models is beloved as "one of the most positive of [Potter's] creations," and her cozy countryside surroundings – beautifully executed – transport the reader into the story (Taylor et al., 121).
Read more: Leslie Linder, A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter; Judy Taylor, Joyce Irene Whalley, et al., Beatrix Potter 1866-1943: The Artist and Her World; Jane Quinby, Beatrix Potter: A Bibliographical Check List, item 8.
The Object
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1905. 5.5'' x 4''. Original olive paper boards with color pictorial center panel and white lettering. Color decorative endpapers of other Beatrix Potter characters. Illustrated in color throughout. 86 pages. Gift inscription to front flyleaf, "Beryl / with love from / Father & Mother / Xmas / 1906." Binding with a bit of edgewear, mild bumping to corners and spine ends; spine with a touch of sunning. Leaves with a couple small spots of soil to margins; tiny closed tear to margin of page 50. Bright.
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