Potter beatricis beatrix (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 14.5x11cm. The tale translated into Latin by the subject's namesake Jeremy Fisher. First edition thus. Format and illustrations as the original. 59pp with illustrations in colour in text and at endpapers. Orange paper-covered boards, backstrip and front board titled in maroon, front board with colour illustration inlay. Tips of upper outer corners a little curled. Clean and unmarked. VERY GOOD+ copy in VERY GOOD faintly age-toned price-clipped dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. London, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., [May 1962 (first edition)]. Duodecimo, 60 pages (including the free endpapers) with a small line illustration on the title page, 27 full-page colour plates and colour-pictorial endpapers. Papered boards with a colour plate mounted on the front cover; scattered foxing internally; a very good copy with the very good dustwrapper (price-clipped and a little worn, marked and foxed). This first edition in Latin of 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' evidently attracted the opprobrium of the Latinist public. By November 1962 Warne had issued a revised edition with substantial corrections and emendations to the Latin, including to the title (a copy of this issue, in similar condition, is offered here together with the first edition). The revised title is 'Fabula de Petro Cuniculo. Liber omnibus notus Beatricis Potter in Latinum conversus est auctore E. Peroto Walker', with changes also made to the covers and dustwrapper. Internally, we have noticed grammatical and typographical revisions to 18 of the 26 pages of text. Despite these corrections, the revised version did not meet with great acclaim. A mock-Catullan review by John F. Gummere in 'The Classical World' (March 1963) lists several of E. Perot Walker's awkward calques (e.g. 'Dominus McGregor erat in suis manibus et genibus' for 'Mr McGregor was on his hands and knees') and concludes 'Ohe, iam satis est. O factum male! Vae miselle liber!'. [2 items].…