The tale of Squirrel Nutkin / by Beatrix Potter author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit".

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943.

Contributor:

Tehon, Atha.

Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943. Original Peter Rabbit books ; 2.

The original Peter Rabbit books ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Squirrels--Juvenile fiction.

Squirrels.

Genre:

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copies 1-4)

Tehon, Susan.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 58 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 13 cm.

Edition:

[Original and authorized edition New color reproductions].

[McDonald's Special Edition].

Manufacture:

Wisconsin : Printed and bound W. A. Krueger]

Place of Publication:

[London] : Frederick Warne ; [Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ;] [New York : Published by the Penguin Group, [1988]

Summary:

Squirrel Nutkin would rather ask an old owl riddles than gather nuts with the other squirrels.

Notes:

Edition statements from cover.

Series statement from cover.

"First published 1909. This edition with new reproductions first published 1987. This impression 1988."

"The reproductions in this book have been made using the most modern electronic scanning methods from entirely new transparencies of Beatrix Potter's original watercolours. They enable Beatrix Potter's skill as an artists to be appreciated as never before, not even during her own lifetime."

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copies 1-4 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copies 1-4 preliminary page [1] have "This book belongs to ..." with illustration of rabbit and McDonald's Special Edition printed below.

OCLC:

967062783