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Beautifully illustrated with colour plates, this is an early printing of Beatrix Potter's charming retelling of Aesop's 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse'. First published the year prior, this is an early edition of this work. Published in 1919 after the month of May, as this is when Warne became a limited company. With Quinby plate XV endpapers, as called for. 'The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse' is a charming tale based off Aesop's brilliant fable 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse', following a country mouse and a city mouse who visit one another in their own homes. Beautifully illustrated in colour in Potter's typical style, with a colour frontispiece and twenty-six colour plates.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original paper covered boards, with pictorial onlay to front board. Back strip age toned, with boards bright. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright, and just a touch age toned to perimeters. Near Fine.