Lot Details
Lot 68
POTTER, BEATRIX The Tailor of Gloucester.
[London: Privately printed for the Author by Strangeways & Sons] December, 1902. First edition, first issue, one of 500 copies printed for the author. Original pink printed boards, laid-paper endpapers, housed in a maroon quarter morocco slipcase. 5 1/4 x 4 inches (13 x 10 cm); 16 color plates by the author. A fine copy in original condition with only faint spotting to the covers, endpapers and edges, the verso of one plate with some erased pencil markings.
Provenance: Justin Schiller (booklabel to chemise); to the Mary K. Young Collection
Exhibited: Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit: A Centenary Celebration from the Collection of Grolier Club Members, The Grolier Club, New York, 14 November 2001-11 January 2002
Beatrix Potter's favorite of her own books, one of the 500 privately printed copies for the author. The story was first presented as a picture letter to Freda Moore at Christmas 1901 and in December 1902 Potter had it printed in a similar style to the second issue of Peter Rabbit, released the same month. The text and illustrations in the present edition differ considerably from the edition published by Warne in 1903. Quinby 3.
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C The Mary K. Young Collection
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