Cottontails Baby Vintage*VINTAGE children’s book – The Story of Mr Prettimouse (late 1940s?)

Lovely vintage children’s book.

‘The Story of Mr Prettimouse’ by Margaret Alleyne, with illustrations by Mary B Robinson 

Absolutely lovely little book in fair condition and complete with dusk jacket.

Published by Frederick Warne & Co (the same publishing house as Beatrix Potter, and you can tell there is a similar style with pretty vignette watercolours and pen and ink line drawings.)

This edition does not have a date based on the other titles listed on the back it is an early edition – perhaps late 1940s. 

The story begins “One upon a time, in the village of Much Cheese, there lived a little brown mouse. He was quite an ordinary mouse – no bigger or cleverer or more handsome than his neighbours – but he thought he was Someone Special…” 

45 pages, dainty illustrations and a lovely story with a happy ending. 

The dust jacket is a little faded with some tears to the corners and age marks, the price is clipped out, and there is a pen inscription on the first page – but otherwise it is in  nice condition.