Tale of Mr. Tod, The by POTTER, Beatrix

New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1912. First American Edition of The Tale of Mr. Tod In the Original Glassine Wrapper POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Mr. Tod. New York: Frederick Warne & Co., [1912]. First American edition. Twelvemo (5 7/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 138 x 103 mm.). 93, [1] pp. Color frontispiece and fourteen color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page and forty-one black and white vignettes in the text. Original gray boards decoratively stamped and lettered in dark green on front cover within a brown single rule border and decoratively stamped and lettered in brown on spine. Large color pictorial label on front cover within a blind rectangular panel surrounded by a broad brown single rule border. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate XI). A very fine copy in the original (very slightly chipped) glassine wrapper. Quinby 21a. Linder, p. 429 (UK edition).