The Tale of Mr. Tod. London: Frederickc Warne & Co., Ltd. [1913]. Early Issue. Publisher’s Original grey boards with a rectangular pictorial panel (colour illustration) inset on the upper cover. Light fading to boards, contents pages in nice bright condition.

Colour frontispiece, title vignette, fourteen colour plates, and forty-one black-and-white in-text illustrations.

First published in 1912, this issue was released alongside The Tale of Pigling Bland as Warne’s “New Volume for 1913. Unlike Potter’s earlier books, this story is notable for having villains as its principal characters – the badger Tommy Brock and the fox Mr. Tod – rather than gentle animal protagonists