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The Tale of Peter Rabbit, FIRST TRADE EDITION, Frederick Warne, [1902]

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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The Tale of Peter Rabbit, FIRST TRADE EDITION, first, second or third printing with "wept big tears" on p.51, colour frontispiece, and 30 colour plates, pale floral endpapers, publisher's brown boards, printed pictorial label on upper cover, extremities of spine slightly rubbed, felt-lined solander box [Quinby 2], 16mo, Frederick Warne, [1902]

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Provenance: "Marjorie Alice Newell from Mrs. Emily Taylor, Xmas 1902", inscription on half-title.

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