Beatrix Potter ─ Ernest Nister

Nister's Holiday Annual for 1896: Pictures and Stories for Little Folks. London: Ernest Nister, 1896

First edition, 4to (253 x 206mm.), nine initialled line drawings on 3pp. by Beatrix Potter, illustrating a poem entitled 'A Frog he would a fishing Go' by Clifton Bingham, five coloured plates (of six, lacking frontispiece), numerous black and white letterpress illustrations, including some by Louis Wain, original cloth-backed pictorial glazed boards, leaves browned at extremities, a few leaves slightly torn, a few gatherings detached, hinges cracked, spine and boards rubbed

PROVENANCE:

Bookplate of Prince Waldemar of Prussia