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| Book Number | B0015522 |
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| Title | The Story of Miss Moppet |
| Author(s) | Author: Potter, Beatrix [Helen] Illustrator: Beatrix [Helen] Potter Beatrix [Helen] Potter (1866 to 1943)—English author, illustrator, mycologist and conservationist who was best known for her children's books that featured animal characters, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit |
| Edition and Format | First Edition, [First Printing] —Edition identified by: Wallet format and 'Frederick Warne & Co London and New York' on the rear cover. [References: Beatrix Potter: A Bibliographical Check List by Jane Quinby, reference 11a and A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, Including Unpublished Work by Leslie Linder, page 183] Hardcover, Oblong 32 mo 94 mm (3 3/4 inches) by 112 mm (4 3/8 inches). [28] printed pages in publisher's original grey cloth wallet with blue lettering and decoration, colour on-lay and silver tab. The first of three stories in wallet from, the other two being, The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit and The Sly Old Cat, although the later was never actually published in this form. The Story of Miss Moppet was reprinted in book form in 1916. The Sly Old Cat was printed in book form in 1971. Contains fourteen colour plates and fourteen pages of text on linen backed pages which fold out in concertina fashion |
| Publisher(s) | Frederick Warne and Co, London, 1906 Frederick Warne and Co—(Founded in 1865) A British publishing firm famous for children's books, particularly those of Beatrix Potter along with Edward Lear, Kate Greenaway Walter Crane. and Observer Books. Warnes became a limited company in 1918 and were absorbed Into the Penguin Group in 1983. Note on identifying first editions: Warne's method of identifying first editions appears to be somewhat haphazard, especially on high volume titles such as Potters and Observers books. The presence of 'Ltd' in the company name, indicates 1918 or later and from about 1940 until their absorption into the Penguin group they used a system of printers codes to indicate the printer, month and year. Other than that carefully checking of bibliographical information on a book by book basis is required. Just to ensure confusion, they do often state the copyright date e.g. A Tale of Two Bad Mice will state 'Copyright 1904 by Frederick Warne and Co', but this appears a every copy printed until at least 1940!. [McBride page 107] [Zempel and Verkler page 484] . |
| Series | Peter Rabbit New Series Number Two Peter Rabbit New Series—A series of classic children's books by Beatrix Potter (The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit (1906), The Story of Miss Moppet (1906), The Tale of Mr. Tod (1912), The Tale of Pigling Bland (1913), Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes (1917), Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes (1922) and Peter Rabbit's Almanac for 1929 (1928)) featuring animal characters, and similar to the 'Peter Rabbit First Series', except the format is usually somewhat varied. The Series are companions to the books in the 'Peter Rabbit First Series' and 'Large Format Series'. The series contains 7 books. The first book was originally published in 1906 and the last book was originally published in 1928 |
| Content | Content Miss Moppet attempts to catch a mouse that has been teasing her. |
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