Beatrix Potter — The Tale of Tom Kitten

London, Frederick Warne, [1910] . Hardback. Beautifully illustrated throughout with Beatrix Potter's watercolours, this is a lovely early edition of Beatrix Potter's classic tale. An early edition of Potter's charming tale, published three years after the 1907 first edition. Identified as published in 1910 via the presence of Quinby Plate X endpapers, which were used in 1910 publications of Potter's works.Beautifully illustrated in colour in Potter's typical style, with a colour frontispiece, and twenty-six colour plates. Collated, complete.'Tom Kitten' follows the mischievous antics of three kittens, who ruin their mother's plans to have a tea party with friends.Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent, but with front joint tail starting, and board firmly held. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, with only the odd light handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: Beatrix Potter. Very Good .