![POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). The Fairy Caravan by Beatrix Heelis ("Beatrix Potter"). Copyright of the Author. Philadelphia [and Ambleside]: Privately Printed, 1929. 4° (225 x 175mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece, 5 coloured plates and illustrations by Beatrix Potter, many full-page. Original printed green paper boards backed in darker green cloth, partly unopened, uncut (corners of spine very lightly rubbed, very faint scuff marks to upper cover). A VERY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST AND PRIVATELY-PRINTED EDITION, ONE OF 100 COPIES with the first 9 leaves printed at Ambleside.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2008/CSK/2008_CSK_05309_0301_000(035716).jpg?w=1)
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POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). The Fairy Caravan by Beatrix Heelis ("Beatrix Potter"). Copyright of the Author. Philadelphia [and Ambleside]: Privately Printed, 1929. 4° (225 x 175mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece, 5 coloured plates and illustrations by Beatrix Potter, many full-page. Original printed green paper boards backed in darker green cloth, partly unopened, uncut (corners of spine very lightly rubbed, very faint scuff marks to upper cover). A VERY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST AND PRIVATELY-PRINTED EDITION, ONE OF 100 COPIES with the first 9 leaves printed at Ambleside.
The Fairy Caravan was first published by Alexander McKay in Philadelphia since Beatrix Potter did not wish for an English edition: she felt that the stories were too personal and autobiographical. However, in order to preserve the British copyright for the work, she ordered 100 copies of the first 9 leaves to be printed at Ambleside by George Middleton, a local printer. These were sent to America and bound into the 100 copies which constitute the present privately-printed edition. Linder pp.292-305 (giving a full account of the book's complicated publishing history); Quinby 29: "I have been unable to get any definite information on the curious make-up of this book, with the two different kinds of paper, or as to the priority of the English or American edition."
The Fairy Caravan was first published by Alexander McKay in Philadelphia since Beatrix Potter did not wish for an English edition: she felt that the stories were too personal and autobiographical. However, in order to preserve the British copyright for the work, she ordered 100 copies of the first 9 leaves to be printed at Ambleside by George Middleton, a local printer. These were sent to America and bound into the 100 copies which constitute the present privately-printed edition. Linder pp.292-305 (giving a full account of the book's complicated publishing history); Quinby 29: "I have been unable to get any definite information on the curious make-up of this book, with the two different kinds of paper, or as to the priority of the English or American edition."
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