Lucy Wain (5 results)

Condition: Good. Rosalinde Bonnet (illustrator). Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

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Hardcover. Condition: Bon. Friend, Alison (illustrator). Edition 2019. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Edition 2019. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

The first published appearance of Beatrix Potter's 'Froggie' Ten years before 'The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher' [POTTER, Beatrix], [WAIN, Louis], illustrators. [WEEDON, Lucy L.] & [BINGHAM, Clifton]. Comical Customers At the New Stores of Comical Rhymes and Stories. London: Ernest Nister, [1896]. First edition. Quarto (10 x 8 1/8 inches; 254 x 206 mm.). [1-48] pp. Mounted color frontispiece, numerous black and white line drawings throughout the text by Louis Wain, W. Foster and others. The penultimate story in the book by C[lifton] B[ingham] 'A Frog he would a fishing Go' illustrated with ten charming line drawings, nine of them by Beatrix Potter, each one signed 'HBP'. The book also contains a separate full-page illustration of "Sqintina Tabby" to accompany "The Story of Violante and the Silver Sixpence", after a pen and grisaille drawing heightened with gouache by Potter. Beatrix Potter's uncle Sir Henry and Aunt Lucy Roscoe owned a cat called Squintina or Squinty. Potter's frog illustrations appeared in two collections by Nister this year: the present publication and the Holiday Annual. Original dark blue cloth backed glazed pictorial boards. Pale blue floral endpapers. The front cover with a very colorful scene depicting four young cats visiting the local [cat] storekeeper. Contemporary pencil ownership inscription on half title dated 1896. Extremities of boards a little worn otherwise an excellent copy of this extremely scarce Beatrix Potter/Louis Wain item.