POTTER, Beatrix [Helen]
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers
or Roly-Poly Pudding.
Stock Code 121771
Frederick Warne and Co., London, [1926].
Potter expresses her love of the quaint old farmhouse at Hill Top, Sawrey, which she has taken as the setting for the story. 'The plot is evidently inspired by the numerous rats that were over-running the house at that time and although the book was not published until the autumn of 1908, the story was actually written in 1906. However, although written about the rats at Hill Top, the story was dedicated ot Potter's tame white rat 'Sammy'. In 1926, to bring it into line with her other books in the series, it was print in the ordinary small format, which pleased Potter and the title was changed to 'The Tale of Samuel Whiskers'. Linder, p. 191-194.
First Edition in this format, first printing (no date and small text box containing an advertisement for The Roly-Poly Pudding in its original format on the reverse of the free front endpaper). 12mo (12.5cm x 15 cm), 75, [1] pp., 18 full-page colour illustrations (including frontispiece), colour pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plates V and VI), very mild age-toning to paper, faint thumb-mark to blank margin at base of p. 39, a few minor, tiny spots to verso of upper free endpaper and half-title otherwise near-fine; publisher's red paper-covered boards with white lettering on the spine and upper board and colour on-lay on the upper board, endearing faint, contemporary gift-inscription to upper blank margin of front free endpaper; 'Sheila/with love from/Daddy/Christmas 1926'. the year of publication, spine and upper edge of boards faded (as usual, one little spot to rear baord, else again, near-fine.
Linder, p. 427. Quinby 15B ('Not seen').
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