THE TALE OF LITTLE PIG ROBINSON. This item is unavailable.THE TALE OF LITTLE PIG ROBINSON

First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover, and titles and illustration in brown, in green-blue dustwrapper with pictorial onlay. A near fine copy with a little fading to the upper part of the boards, in a very good dustwrapper, with a small chip to the base of the spine and a small puncture to the rear cover. Six illustrations in colour and numerous line drawings by the author. Beatrix Potter took inspiration from a coastal trip to Falmouth and Hastings, as well as Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe story. It is one of her more lengthy tales, being divided into eight chapters.