Potter (Beatrix).- Dutton

Potter (Beatrix).- Dutton (E.P.) and Ernest Nister, publishers. A Frog he would a fishing Go, first appearance, in Nister's Holiday Annual 1896, 10 illustrations for Clifton Bingham's verse by Beatrix Potter (signed HBP), with illustrations for the other stories etc. contained by various other illustrators, including Louis Wain, some light foxing to margins, otherwise internally fine, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a few light water spots to upper cover, g.e., [Taylor, Whalley, Hobbs, Battrick pp.126-127; V&A 1029-1053], 4to, New York & London, 1896.

***Beatrix Potter's first published illustrations and the first to depict "Jeremy Fisher", whose Tales were not published until 1906. Of the ten illustrations, nine are by Potter and bear her initials HBP, with the initial drawing of a frog holding a rod, whose tangled fishing line reveals the words of the title, having been prepared by Nister (replacing the one they would not pay for, see Linder pp.176-179). Beatrix Potter would subsequently buy back the drawings and blocks from Nister for £6, shortly after the successful publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit..