INSCRIBED BY POTTER TO HER COUSIN
Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes
F. Warne & Co., 1917.
First edition. 12mo. Green paper covered boards with lettering in red, and pictorial onlay to upper cover. With a contemporary gift inscription on the half title, from Beatrix Potter to her cousin, "For Ada I. Heelis/ with love from Beatrix Heelis/ Dec 19th 17". Pictorial endpapers have notice board design, colour frontis and fourteen colour plates by the author. A very good copy indeed, with slight tanning to the spine.
A fine family association. The recipient of this book was Ada Isab Heelis, cousin of Beatrix's husband, William Heelis.
PROVENANCE: From the collection of Mary Potter.
Stock ID: 47075
£6,500.00
