Beatrix Potter — The Tale of Two Bad Mice

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1904. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this mischievous tale from beloved children's author and illustrator, Beatrix Potter. First edition. Quinby No. 7, endpapers Plate II as called for.  In the publisher's pictorial boards. Rebacked, with restoration to the spine and hinges.  Illustrated in Potter's distinct charming style with a colour frontispiece, title page vignette, and twenty-six colour plates. Collated, complete. A classic tale from the world of Beatrix Potter, which follows two mice causing mischief in a dolls' house.Potter took inspiration for the tale from two mice caught in a cage-trap in her cousin's home and a doll's house being constructed by her editor and publisher Norman Warne as a Christmas gift for his niece Winifred. In the publisher's pictorial boards. Rebacked, with restoration to the spine and hinges. Externally, generally smart, with fading to the boards and slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with the odd light handling mark. Good . Ill.: Beatrix Potter. Good .