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Lot 179

POTTER (BEATRIX)
The Tailor of Gloucester, FIRST TRADE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Frederick Warne, 1903

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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POTTER (BEATRIX)

The Tailor of Gloucester, FIRST TRADE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with date on title-page and a single-page endpaper repeated four times, 27 colour plates, publisher's dark green boards, printed pictorial label on upper cover, felt-lined solander box [Quinby 4], 16mo, Frederick Warne, 1903

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AN EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD COPY of what Potter wrote was "my own favourite amongst my little books" (cf. Linder, The History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, 1987, p.121).

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