The publication of Jeremy Fisher by Warne relied on Nister no longer owning the copyright on the artwork and zinc blocks, but fortunately Beatrix, with typical business acumen, had bought these all back from Nister shortly after the publication of Peter Rabbit. Jeremy Fisher, like Peter Rabbit, began life as an illustrated letter to a young child. Beatrix took the story concept to children's book publisher Ernest Nister, who turned down her idea of a separate booklet but agreed, after some hard negotiating by Miss Potter, to use the pen & ink drawings in one of their annuals to illustrate a Clifton Bingham verse tale, 'A Frog he would a-fishing go'. Jeremy Fisher started off in picture-letter format, this time to Eric Moore in Dunkeld in 1893. The story tells of two mice named Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca who move into a dolls house and try to eat the toy food, which looks so appetising. Jeremy Fisher is a childrens book, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. A pleasingly sound, clean copy of this deluxe issue of one of Beatrix Potter's most beloved works, very hard to find in such condition. First edition, deluxe issue, third printing 16mo 27 colour plates, plain title vignette and colour pictorial endpapers by Beatrix Potter, small ink name to front free endpaper, overall internally very good publisher's russet cloth with decorative gilt to design by Beatrix Potter, with inset colour illustration to upper cover, a little rubbing to corner-tips with fore-corners turning in ever so slightly, but overall an unusually good example, gilt edges.
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