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The Tailor of Gloucester. by BEATRIX POTTER

Creator: BEATRIX POTTER
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
POTTER, BEATRIX.
The Tailor of Gloucester.
Stock Code 99058
London, Frederick Warne, 1903
£1,900
An exceptional copy of the first Warne edition of The Tailor of Gloucester, of which the author & illustrator Beatrix Potter wrote 'my own favourite amongst my little books' (cf. Linder, The History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, 1987, p.121).

Description
First trade edition, first issue with date on title-page and a single-page endpaper repeated four times; 16mo; 27 full-page colour illustrations, title vignette and pictorial endpapers by the author; publisher's dark green boards with inset colour illustration, presented in later cloth solander box.

Bibliography
Quinby 4.

Stock ID:99058

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