The Tale of Pigling Bland -
Beatrix Potter
1913 - Frederick Warne and Co., London - First Edition
A scarce fine example of this wonderfully illustrated first edition with fifteen colour plates.
The Tale of Pigling Bland is based on two of Beatrix Potter’s pigs who she called Alexander and Pigling Bland, who were sold because food was running short and they had such big appetites ‘five meals a day and not satisfied’.
She also had a little black girl-pig (the inspiration for Pigling’s lady friend Pig-wig) who she ‘put it beside her bed and fed it herself night and day, until in the end it became her pet, and followed her everywhere indoors and out’. First edition, one of the first two printings, both of which are identical according to Linder’s comprehensive bibliography of Beatrix Potter, with 1913 on the front of the title page [changed to 1914 for third printing]. Correct double-page front and back endpapers [Linder Figure 11]. Original green-grey boards [issued in green-grey, brown or maroon paper boards, no priority given]. First printing October (25,000 copies), second printing November (10,000 copies).
Reference: Linder, A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, 429. Quinby Beatrix Potter: A Bibliographical Check List 20.
Duodecimo (book size 14.4x11.2x1.2cm), pp. 94. Illustrations included in pagination. In publisher’s green-grey paper boards, spine lettered and decorated in maroon, upper board with maroon lettering and laid on illustration of Pigling Bland, endpapers illustrated with Beatrix Potter characters. Condition: Fine Ref: 111918 Price: HK$ 5,000
The Tale of Pigling Bland is based on two of Beatrix Potter’s pigs who she called Alexander and Pigling Bland, who were sold because food was running short and they had such big appetites ‘five meals a day and not satisfied’.
She also had a little black girl-pig (the inspiration for Pigling’s lady friend Pig-wig) who she ‘put it beside her bed and fed it herself night and day, until in the end it became her pet, and followed her everywhere indoors and out’. First edition, one of the first two printings, both of which are identical according to Linder’s comprehensive bibliography of Beatrix Potter, with 1913 on the front of the title page [changed to 1914 for third printing]. Correct double-page front and back endpapers [Linder Figure 11]. Original green-grey boards [issued in green-grey, brown or maroon paper boards, no priority given]. First printing October (25,000 copies), second printing November (10,000 copies).
Reference: Linder, A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, 429. Quinby Beatrix Potter: A Bibliographical Check List 20.
Duodecimo (book size 14.4x11.2x1.2cm), pp. 94. Illustrations included in pagination. In publisher’s green-grey paper boards, spine lettered and decorated in maroon, upper board with maroon lettering and laid on illustration of Pigling Bland, endpapers illustrated with Beatrix Potter characters. Condition: Fine Ref: 111918 Price: HK$ 5,000