Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes: The original and authorized edition: 22 by Potter, Beatrix - 2002-03-07

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st. (Reset and newly illustrated.)* Date of Publication: 2002 (1917) * Publisher: Frederick Warne/ Penguin, Random House.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated vignette showing Appley-Dappley, on blue-grey ground. Cream titles to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. Seems little used if at all. FINE.* Jacket condition: Matching dust wrapper but with black titles to spine and hinge on a cream ground. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £5.99. No visible faults. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE. * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with colour illustrated end papers (light grey blue.) No reading wear, no marks to text or to margins/edges. No tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Colour illustrations by the author throughout. (New reproductions of Beatrix Potter's originals.)* Pages: 33 pp. text. 0 pp. additional at rear.* Description: Beatrix Potter loved the countryside and she spent much of her otherwise conventional Victorian childhood drawing and studying animals. Her passion for the natural world lay behind the creation of her famous series of little books.* Beatrix Potter gathered material for a book of rhymes over many years. In 1917, when her publisher was in financial difficulties and needed her help, she suggested that Appley Dappley's Rhymes could be bought out quickly, using her collection of rhymes and drawings. The fact that the illustrations were painted at different times explains why the style occasionally varies.* This is volume 22 in the collection issued by Penguin as a boxed set in 2002.* A FINE copy of the 1st./1st, thus with no visible faults in a FINE dust jacket.* 22nd. of 23