Wag-by-Wall / by Beatrix Potter ; with decorations by J.J. Lankes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943.

Contributor:

Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960, illustrator.

Horn Book, Inc., publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grandmothers--Juvenile fiction.

Grandmothers.

Chiming clocks--Juvenile fiction.

Chiming clocks.

Treasure troves--Juvenile fiction.

Treasure troves.

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1944.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-1975 (donor) (inscription) (RBC copy)

Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960 (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

30 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : The Horn Book, Inc., 1944.

Summary:

In the Westmorland countryside, on a small farm in a thatched cottage, lived a kindly old woman named Sally Benson, who owned a singing kettle and an ancient clock, and sheltered a pair of owls in the shed.

Notes:

Title page in red and black.

Without pagination.

"This first edition of Wag-by-Wall set in Scotch Roman and printed on Flemish book laid paper at the printing press of Thomas Todd on Beacon Hill on Boston."--Colophon.

Frontispiece is a portrait of an elderly Beatrix Potter and a young girl.

In cloth-covered boards printed in red. Woodcut of a cottage mounted on upper board. Decorated end papers.

Local Notes:

RBC copy has dust jacket retained.

RBC is presentation copy to Carl Zigrosser from J.J. Lankes signed on January 1, 1945.

RBC copy gift of Carl Zigrosser.

Other Format:

Online version: Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943. Wag-by-Wall.

OCLC:

918922