Cecily Parsley's nursery rhymes / by Beatrix Potter author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," etc.

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 ; 23.

The original Peter Rabbit books ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals--Fiction.

Animals.

Nursery rhymes.

Genre:

Fiction.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

37 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 15 cm.

Edition:

[Original and authorized edition New colour reproductions].

Manufacture:

Beccles and London : Printed and bound by William Clowes Limited.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Frederick Warne ; [Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ;] [New York : Published by the Penguin Group, [©1987]

Summary:

Eight short nursery rhymes about Cecily Parsley, Goosey Gander, the five pigs, Pussy-Cat, three blind mice, Tom Tinker's dog, a garden and Ninny Nanny Netticoat.

Notes:

Edition and series statements from cover.

Illustrated lining papers.

Originally published: London ; New York : F. Warne, 1922.

"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 artist to be appreciated as never before, not even during her own lifetime."

"The originals of the illustrations on pages 17 and 30 are unavailable, so a first edition has been photgraphed to reproduce these pictures."

"This edition with new reproductions first published 1987."

Designed by Atha Tehon.

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Tehon Collection copy is 1989 impression.

ISBN:

0723234825

9780723234821

OCLC:

16962759