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The Story of Peter Rabbit

Book
April 1920 (published)
Artist/Maker
Reilly & Lee Co. (publisher)
McLaughlin, P. (illustrator)
Pente, Will (designer)
Place of origin
Chicago (published)

Printed toybook, Pirated fold-a-way edition of 16 leaves of the Peter Rabbit story, containing cut-outs. Pictures of characters from the story to cut out and play with. A toy book with part of the cover designed to be removed to form the background to the story.

Object details

Categories
Toys & Games
Play
Children & Childhood
Animals and Wildlife
National Art Library
Illustration
Books
Anthropomorphism
Object type
Book
TitleThe Story of Peter Rabbit (published title)
Materials and techniques
Letterpress and process printed illustrations on paper, paper cover, die-cut?
Printing Ink
Paper (Fiber Product)
Typesetting
Die Cutting
Printing
Brief description
The Story of Peter Rabbit. Pirated fold-a-way edition by Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, April 1920. Copy once belonging to Beatrix Potter. Linder Bequest cat. no. LB 1723. NAL accession no. BP.28.
Physical description
Printed toybook, Pirated fold-a-way edition of 16 leaves of the Peter Rabbit story, containing cut-outs. Pictures of characters from the story to cut out and play with. A toy book with part of the cover designed to be removed to form the background to the story.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.5cm
  • Width: 14.5cm
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • This may interest you. It is a piracy from U.S.A. - some copies of which were offered for sale here - but we have stopped the importation and made them return the stock (Inscribed by publisher Frederick Warne in ink on upper cover)
  • April 1920 (Inscribed by Beatrix Potter)
  • Patented June 25, 1917 / July 10, 1917 (Ink stamp on each leaf)
  • [Instructions on use of book] (Printed on inside back cover)
Credit line
Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number]
Object history
Acquired by the V&A from Leslie Linder (1904-1973) in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, a collection of ca. 2150 watercolours, drawings, literary manuscripts, correspondence, books, photographs, and other memorabilia associated with Beatrix Potter and her family.
Bibliographic reference
Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Joyce Irene Whalley, eds. Beatrix Potter: the V & A collection : the Leslie Linder bequest of Beatrix Potter material : watercolours, drawings, manuscripts, books, photographs and memorabilia. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985.
Other numbers
  • LB.1723 - Linder Bequest catalogue no.
  • BP.28 - NAL accession number
Collection
National Art Library
Library number
BP.28

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Record createdMarch 7, 2014
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1285134/the-story-of-peter-rabbit-book-mclaughlin-p/
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