The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. by POTTER, Beatrix

London and New York, Frederick Warne and Co., 1908. . First edition, first, second or third printing, deluxe issue; 16mo; colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers; publisher's green cloth with mounted colour illustration, decorations and lettering in gilt to design by the author, slight shelf-lean, spine ends and corners a little rubbed and bumped, otherwise an excellent copy; preserved in a custom-made slip-case. 'Jemima Puddle-Duck is her poem about [Hill Top Farm] itself, and anyone who is curious to reconstruct its exact appearance in those days can do so from the pictures in that book…' (Margaret Lane). Another of the author's most famous creations, Jemima Puddle-Duck, with her naive & trusting nature, was based on a real duck from Hill Top Farm, and proved immensely popular, spin-off merchandise including a Jemima painting book and illustrated fabric placemats hand-fashioned by Potter and distributed to friends. Critically, the book is considered one of Potter's best. Linder p.427; not in Quinby.