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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, 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 flower pattern cloth with lettering pieces on upper cover, g.e., slightly rubbed, felt-lined solander box [Quinby 4], 16mo, Frederick Warne, 1903

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FIRST EDITION IN THE "DE-LUXE" FABRIC BINDING, described by Potter as "a flowered lavender chintz, very pretty", made from samples of material from Edmund Potter & Co. of Manchester, the textile printing works owned by Beatrix's grandfather. It appeared simultaneously as the copies issued in boards.

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