with THE LAVENDER GARDEN by Norah Edmondson
INSCRIBED TO NORAH EDMONDSON
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson with THE LAVENDER GARDEN by Norah Edmondson
Warne & Co. Ltd, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the upper cover, and titles and illustration in brown. Printed dustwrapper with pictorial onlay. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper, "For Norah Edmondson, from Beatrix Potter, Christmas 1930". Illustrations in colour and line by the author. Both book and wrapper are in very good condition indeed with just slight toning to the spine and one or two spots of foxing to the endpapers.
Norah Mary Edmondson is the author of The Lavender Garden, published in 1929 for which Beatrix Potter provided the introduction. Pig Robinson was published the following year, and with their colaboration doubtless fresh in her mind Beatrix Potter sent this copy of her new book to her friend and fellow writer.
"Although The Tale Of Little Pig Robinson was the last of Beatrix Potter's stories to be published in the Peter Rabbit series, it was one of the first she ever wrote. The earliest association with the story is found in a letter written to her father from Ilfracombe in 1883 when she was seventeen years of age;" (Linder p.256). Writing shortly before her death Potter noted that she "found an old draft of Pig Robinson's first chapters dated 1893". Also included is a 1929 early issue of Edmondson's book in dustwrapper.
PROVENANCE: Norah Edmondson, author of The Lavender Garden.
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