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POTTER, BEATRIX. The Pie and the Patty-Pan. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1905. 10 color illustrations and 20 black-and-white text illustrations. Small 4to, original gilt-decorated blue cloth over bevelled-edge boards, upper cover with pictorial design in blue and gilt of Ribby and Duchess seated at a table, g.e., plain white moiré-style endpapers, pictorial design on upper cover is rubbed and partly scratched, spine ends and corners rubbed; upper hinge cracked. FIRST EDITION IN DE-LUXE CLOTH BINDING, published October, 1905. One of an unspecified number of copies bound in this deluxe binding. Quinby 9; Linder, p. 425.