THE TALE OF MRS. TITTLEMOUSE
First edition of this charming story of a mouse's efforts to keep her house tidy in the face of numerous insect visitors – one of Beatrix Potter's scarcer titles.
Very good plus.
Price: $1,000.00
First edition of this charming story of a mouse's efforts to keep her house tidy in the face of numerous insect visitors – one of Beatrix Potter's scarcer titles.
Very good plus.
Price: $1,000.00
"Tiddly, widdly, widdly! Your very good health, MRS. TITTLEMOUSE!"
Beatrix Potter's early "microscopic studies showing the beautiful coloured scales of butterflies' wings, and the highly magnified anatomy of spiders and beetles" informed her loving drawings of MRS. TITTLEMOUSE's various arthropod house guests (Linder, 205). Potter's publisher, though, was not quite as warm to the insect characters: her initial inclusion of wood-lice irked Warne, who "did not consider [the wood-louse] a suitable creature to mention in a children's book" (Linder, 205). Potter was able to retain the wood-lice illustration in the final publication, but instead of calling the insects by their proper names, she changed them to "three creepy crawly people" to appease Warne's delicate sensibilities.
Read more: Leslie Linder, A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter; Jane Quinby, Beatrix Potter: A Bibliographical Check List, item 18.
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1910. 5.5'' x 4.25''. Original blue paper boards with color pictorial center panel and white lettering. Color decorative endpapers of other Beatrix Potter characters. Illustrated in color throughout. 86 pages. Binding with a touch of sunning to spine, mild bumping to corners and spine ends. Leaves with a couple tiny spots of soil to margins, little abrasion to gutter of pages 16-17; small careful repairs to margins of pages 41-44. Bright.
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