Beschreibung:

POTTER, BEATRIX. 1866-1943. 2 titles: 1. Comical Customers: At the New Stores of Comical Rhymes and Pictures. London: Ernest Nister, [1894]. 4to (252 x 197 mm). Mounted chromolithograph frontispiece, illustrated throughout including 9 line drawings by Potter for "A Frog He Would A Fishing Go," and full page Potter drawing "What Shall We Buy" (signed "Nister"). Cloth backed chromolithographed paper boards, recased, some staining to upper cover, endpapers repaired, tape repair to fore-edge of front fly, and half-title, wear to covers, housed in custom cloth clamshell box with pictorial paste-on cover. Provenance: "Day" (contemporary ownership inscription from "Aunt Soph and Dot's Love"). 2. Changing Pictures: A Book of Transformation Pictures. London: Ernest Nister, [1893]. 4to (240 x 192 mm). 6 full-page chromolithographed moving pictures operated by single tabs. Original cloth-backed chromolithographed boards, upper cover with a rabbit illustration by Beatrix Potter recased, gutters repaired, modern tabs, some chipping to endpapers, housed in custom cloth box, with pictorial label to cover. Provenance: "Gladys" (contemporary gift inscription from Pearl and Harold). TWO EARLY AND SCARCE POTTER APPEARANCES in Nister publications. The illustrations for "Frog" had been created the year before in a letter to Eric Moore and though Potter hoped to have the entire concept published, Nister would only agree to publish the drawings across 3 pages with an accompanying text by Clifton Bingham. Potter's entire concept would appear in 1906 with The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher.