The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck [Inscribed by Beatrix Potter]

Potter, Beatrix

Published by Frederick Warne and Co. c. 1911, London and New York, 1911

About this Item

With a signed dedication from Beatrix Potter to Barbara Ruxton, dated August 1911. Holidaying in the Lake District in 1911 when she was 12 years old, Barbara Ruxton was invited to meet Beatrix Potter, and became one of her correspondents; the letters to her from Potter were among the few to survive after she was married to William Heelis in 1913. She was also staying with Potter in 1913 at Castle Cottage, prior to the wedding, when Potter was working to finish the illustrations for Pigling Bland, and saved her the task of redrawing one of her illustrations with the useful suggestion of placing the cockerel on a saucer and thus filling the space she had accidentally left beneath him. This is a later edition of Jemima Puddle-Duck, published around 1911, a few years after the first edition in 1908, and is the tale of one of the real ducks who lived at Hill Top Farm with the scenery being a beautiful depiction of the farm and surrounding landscape, colour frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations, pp 86 (Linder, 1979). Linder, A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, 1979, Appendix I Fig. 7; Taylor, Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter, 1992, pp. 152 - 154). Provenance: Bonhams, London, December 2002, Lot 440. Later edition. Bound in original olive green paper boards with pictorial inlay, new paper spine with white lettering, pictorial endpapers. 16mo Carefully rebacked, with title discreetly applied to new spine using watercolour, retains original olive green boards with marks, occasional marks to pages at the margins, largely clean, small closed tear to margin of pp 77/78, rear free endpaper with blind embossed stamp for North of England School Furnishing Co. Ltd Newcastle-On-Tyne, good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck [Inscribed by Beatrix Potter]
• Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co. c. 1911, London and New York
• Publication Date: 1911
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated by Beatrix Potter
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's