beatrix potter the tailor of gloucester book

The first printing has a single-page end-paper occurring four times, and the second printing, a double-page end-paper occurring twice. “The year 1903 appears on the front of the title-page of the first two printings.

The jacket has a few very small chips along the top edge (the largest being a 3/8 inch piece missing at the top of the spine), but is certainly the finest jacket for this title that we have ever seen. In the rare correct glazed paper glassine dust jacket printed in black with the price “1/- NET” at foot of spine, an advertisement for “The Peter Rabbit Books” on the back panel listing The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, and The Tailor of Gloucester, and with vertical lines at the top and bottom of the spine indicating where the fold should come for the front panel. Housed in a quarter brown morocco clamshell case with felt lining. Otherwise a spectacular copy in very fine condition. Small circular bookseller’s label on rear pastedown. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate I, a single-page endpaper occurring four times). Color pictorial label on front cover within a blind panel in the shape of a truncated pyramid outlined in blind. Original maroon boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white on spine. Seventeen illustrations are entirely new for this edition eleven of the illustrations are repeated from the December 1902 privately printed edition.

Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903.įirst published edition, first issue (printed October 1903), with a single-page endpaper occurring four times. In the Rare Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket POTTER, Beatrix Tailor of Gloucester, The

Beatrix potter the tailor of gloucester book