The tale of mrs tiggy winkle 19056/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The spine of this copy has been replaced with matching stiff paper otherwise it is in very good-plus condition (front endpaper slightly cracked, fore-edge of frontispiece plate worn). Some copies are in light brown boards, some in light green, and some in decorated cloth - no priority) this copy appears to be light green largely faded to light brown. Tiggy-winkle who does all the washing and ironing for the. It is discovered one day by a little girl called Lucie, who is in search of her missing pocket handkerchiefs. It tells the tale of a hidden home high in the hills. There are known to have been two printings in (and dated) 1905, but there are no known differences between the two the third printing was not until 1906 (so dated). Tiggy-Winklewas first published in 1905, and is as charming today as it was then. TIGGY-WINKLE was the sixth of Beatrix Potter's books to be published, the story had actually been carefully planned as far back as 1901, although it was not actually written down until the following year". First Edition, first or second printing (indistinguishable), of this much-loved tale of the hedgehog washerwoman (in which Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny make a cameo appearance). The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-winkle was first published in 1905, and is as charming today. Original brown-green paper-covered boards with cover pictorial onlay. ![]()
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