– 50 – N e w A c q u i s i t i o n s “Cecily Parsley Lived In A Pen, And Brewed Good Ale For Gentlemen…” 59. POTTER, Beatrix. Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes. London and New York, circa 1922. 16mo, original red paper boards, mounted cover illustration, printed glassine dust jacket, custom cloth clamshell box. $4800. First edition of Potter’s second and last book of rhymes, and the last of her books to be published in the familiar “Peter Rabbit” format, in the very rare dust jacket. In 1922, in a long letter, Beatrix Potter wrote, “I found some time, somehow, to collect some old drawing and piece them together with some additions for a little book of nursery rhymes….” The book would become this companion volume to Appley Dapply, Potter’s muchloved first book of nursery rhymes. Publisher Warne had insisted on numerous prepublication illustration changes, among them that the rabbit on the cover push a wheelbarrow rather than carry a tray, that Cecily’s apples become into cowslips and that the barrels of cider be turned into cowslip wine. After completing Cecily Parsley, only Potter’s Philadelphia publisher could convince her to publish again. Ink owner signature. Book very nearly fine, very rare dust jacket with small chip to head of spine and mild wear and toning to extremities. A beautiful and most desirable copy.
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