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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Privately Printed by Strangeways & Sons, 1902., 1902.

Price: US$6250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: PRIVATELY PRINTED BY THE AUTHOR, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. 1 vol., unpaginated, illustrated with a frontis & 15 color plates by Potter, bound in the original pink pictorial boards, no previous ownership markings or bookplate, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, back corners square and sharp, some mild foxing to pastedowns, endpapers, and covers as usual, internally clean and bright, a much better copy than often encountered, VERY GOOD+.

Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.

Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. Strangeways and Sons, London, 1902.

Price: US$7000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first printing. Privately printed. Bound in original pink paper-covered boards, stamped in black with vignette of three mice sewing on the front cover. Very Good, with some foxing and browning to covers,small bump with some creasing near spine, foxing to text block edge and offsetting to endsheets, else a rather nice and neat copy. (Quinby 3.).

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

POTTER, Beatrix.. The Tailor of Gloucester.. [London: privately printed by Strangeway & Sons,] December 1902, 1902.

Price: US$7797.28 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, one of 500 copies privately printed for the author a year before Warne's trade edition, issued in the same month and in a similar format to the second privately printed edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. The text of this edition is considerably longer than that of the first trade edition and the cover incorporates an illustration that was never used again. The Tailor of Gloucester was first written and illustrated for Freda Moore as a Christmas present in 1901. Potter had the tale privately printed, as Warne had not yet published The Tale of Peter Rabbit and she did not think her publishers would want a second book from her so soon. The story is unique in the series, with its period setting (Potter drew the costumes from the collection at the V&A, then the South Kensington Museum), and was based on a true story that Potter had heard while staying with her cousin Caroline Hutton in Gloucestershire. In 1916, Potter inscribed a copy of the Warne edition, stating "this is my own favourite amongst my little books". Leslie Linder notes, however, that "the privately printed edition. was the one she liked better". The author inscribed a copy of the privately printed edition in 1918 and noted "this is my favourite amongst the little books and I like this first edition because it contains more of the old rhymes." Linder, p. 420; Quinby 3. Sextodecimo. Original pink boards, front cover lettered and with vignette in black. Colour frontispiece and 15 colour plates by the author. Browning to covers as usual, browning to endpapers and some foxing to edges: a near-fine copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom