Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes

london: Frederick Warne and Co., 1917. First Edition of “Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes”

POTTER, Beatrix. Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes. London: Frederick Warne and Co., [n.d., 1917].

First edition (printed in either October or November 1917). Twelvemo (4 13/16 x 4 1/8 inches; 123 x 105 mm.). 52, [1], [1, blank] pp. Color frontispiece and fourteen color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page.

Publisher's light green boards ruled and lettered in dark red on front cover and lettered in dark red on spine. Color pictorial label on front cover within a blind rectangular panel with rounded corners, outlined in blind. With the correct color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plates XII and XIV). A near fine copy.

“There is no year on the title-page. It is believed that a first edition can be identified only if inscribed as a ‘first’, or with an inscription dated 1917. (Correct end-papers would indicate a 1917 printing” (Linder).

Linder, p. 430. Quinby 23. V & A 1532. (Inventory #: 06111)