London, Frederick Warne & Co., [1917]
"Beatrix Potter had always been interested in traditional rhymes... but the majority of the Appley Dapply rhymes were of her own composition" (Linder, 225).
First Edition. 16mo, 108mm x 127mm, 53 pp., with colour frontispiece & 14 colour plates, title-page vignette, publisher's light green boards stamped in red, colour paste-down of Appley Dapply; variant binding as noted by Quinby, fine abrasion to one margin of front cover, spine ends and corners ever so slightly bumped otherwise near fine.
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