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POTTER (BEATRIX)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, FIRST TRADE EDITION, fourth printing, colour plates, 16mo, 1903, Frederick Warne; and 9 others, all but 1 by Potter (10)

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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POTTER (BEATRIX)

The Tale of Peter Rabbit, FIRST TRADE EDITION, fourth printing with wording "shed big tears" on p.51, leaf-pattern design printed on grey endpapers, frontispiece loose with tear (not touching image) and creases, grey-blue boards, rubbed, hinges slightly weakened, [April 1903]; The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, FIRST EDITION, first or second printing, frontispiece loose, short tear to pp.7/8, ownership inscription ("Xmas 1903") on front free endpaper, grey-blue boards, upper joint split, 1903; The Tailor of Gloucester, FIRST EDITION, second printing, rear endpapers scuffed with some loss of image, pencil ownership inscription inside upper cover, grey-blue boards, lacks spine, 1903; The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, FIRST EDITION, first or second impression, with misspelling "muffatees" on p.15, pencil ownership inscription inside upper cover, publisher's pale grey boards, lower joint split with small loss to head of spine, 1904, colour plates, 16mo, Frederick Warne; and 6 others, all but one by Potter (10)

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