Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.

Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.

Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.

Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Only a few minor finger smudges to interior, faint spot of soiling to rear board, slight rubbing and toning mainly to extremities. Tod & Tommy Brock, and I am sorry to tell you they are still quarrelling' (Taylor et al., 148). Tod is left a question-mark, and children complained that there was no sequel-but the characters lived on in Beatrix's mind, and she supplied news of their doings in letters… In reply to one child Beatrix wrote, 'I have inquired about Mr. Nevertheless, this darker and more sophisticated story-in which Potter, for the first time, crafts a tale featuring villains as protagonists-reveals the beloved author-illustrator 'at the height of her powers' (Carpenter & Prichard, 424). This tale, longer than her previous efforts and illustrated with more in-text, black-and-white line-drawings, inaugurated Potter's 'new series' of Peter Rabbit books, sporting a format 'adopted because Potter had no longer the inclination to produce the number of colored pictures used in her other books and she had told Warnes that she was finding it 'so difficult to continue to make 'fresh' short stories' (Linder, 211). $1600.įirst edition of one of the more uncommon Potter titles, with frontispiece and 14 illustrations in color and 42 in-text line drawings. 16mo, original gray boards, mounted cover illustration, pictorial endpapers. London and New York: Frederick Warne, 1912. 'FOR A CHANGE, I AM GOING TO MAKE A STORY ABOUT TWO DISAGREEABLE PEOPLE…'

The tale of mr tod first edition