POTTER, Beatrix.
Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes.
Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes.
Stock Code 117730
London, Frederick Warne, [1922].
first edition, first printing
This is the sister volume to Appley Dapply (1917), both in terms of the nursery rhyme content and the format but drawing more from the earlier memories and associations of the author than its sibling. This collection does include Goosey, Goosey Gander and This Pig Went to Market.First edition, first printing (with the correct front and rear endpapers according to Linder); 16mo (160 x 110 mm); colour frontispiece, plain title vignette, 14 colour plates, colour pictorial endpapers, the odd very minor spot or mark but otherwise near-fine; publisher's green boards with inset colour illustration, light dust-soiling, spine a little faded, corners mildly rubbed, minor, light spotting to fore-edge of text block, otherwise a very good with no inscriptions and restoration.
Linder p.430; Quinby 26
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