Potter (Beatrix).- Nister

Potter (Beatrix).- Nister (Ernest) and E.P. Dutton, publishers. Pleasant Trips by Trains & Ships to Little Folks' Country, 21 chromolithographed plates including one featuring an illustration by Beatrix Potter, one double-page, numerous plain illustrations, all by various artists including Louis Wain, several leaves with closed tear in lower margin, some marginal marking and darkening, lacking rear endpapers and front free endpaper, hinges pulling, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, worn at edges, scratched and marked, 4to, London & New York, [1896].

***This typical Nister compilation contains a hitherto unrecorded illustration by Beatrix Potter, printed in colour as a space-filler, depicting a rabbit stepping out onto a wintery scene with an umbrella at the ready. The oval design is a companion to the watercolour sold at Bonhams in 1997. The rabbit is in identical jacket with the same basket on his arm. Here he is putting up his umbrella, while in the drawing he is leaving with the umbrella raised, watched by his wife..