THE TALE OF MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE
(London: Frederick Warne & Co., [1969]).
ONE OF THE MOST LOVED OF BEATRIX POTTER'S TWENTY-THREE ANIMAL TALES. Potter's pet hedgehog, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, and Kitty MacDonald, a Scottish washerwoman, were the inspirations for the eponymous heroine. Lucie Carr, a child friend of Potter's, was the model for the fictional Lucie. Item #25619
A handsome printing in the original format and by Potter's original publisher. With 27 colour illustrations on double-sided plates, illustrated endpapers, and and cover decoration all by Beatrix Potter. 12mo, publisher s original buff boards lettered in red on the upper cover and spine, with pictorial colour pastedown on the front cover, in the original pictorially decorated white paper dustjacket. 59 pp. A fine copy, even the jacket with only trivial evidence of use.