Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, first edition, first, second or third printing, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, ink gift inscription dated August 1908 to front free endpaper, original olive green boards with mounted colour illustration, minor shelf-lean, spine a little darkened, very short split to foot of lower joint, still an excellent example overall, [Linder p.427; Quinby 14], 16mo, 1908.

⁂ An excellent copy of Beatrix Potter's most critically acclaimed work; in many ways the story of the trusting duck, the crafty fox and the heroic dog Shep are a modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood with a number of ironic twists. Jemima Puddle-Duck was also the first of Potter's books to be set wholly at Hill Top Farm, with both the locations and many of the characters such as Shep and the farmer's wife drawn from life.