Lot
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Lot 96
POTTER BEATRIX. Copy inscribed by author. The Tale of Johnny...
Hammer
£1,000
POTTER BEATRIX. Copy inscribed by author. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse. Col. frontis, title vignette & col. plates. Orig. grey brds. with illustration, some wear, splitting to back but generally very clean internally. 1st ed., prob. 2nd imp. with the n in London present, dots in the letters O on upper brd. Copyright 1918 by Frederick Warne & Co. Inscribed in ink by Beatrix Potter "To Ethel Green from Mrs Heelis, Dec 24` 1918, Wishing her a Merry Christmas". In the 1921 census Ethel Green is recorded as a farm-worker for Mrs Heelis at Hill Top when she was living with her parents, younger sister & niece.
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