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Beatrix Potter. The Tailor of Gloucester. [London: Privately Printed by Strangeways and Sons], December 1902....
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Presentation copy of the privately printed true first edition of Beatrix Potter's second book
Beatrix Potter. The Tailor of Gloucester. [London:
Privately Printed by Strangeways and Sons], December 1902.16mo (in eights). Publisher's pictorial pink boards. Quarter morocco slipcase, cloth chemise.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. INSCRIBED BY BEATRIX POTTER on the front free endpaper: "With best wishes for Christmas / from Beatrix Potter / to someone who was said / to have liked Peter Rabbit."
The true first edition was privately printed in an edition of only 500 copies.
Condition: Rebacked to match original pink boards, original endpapers preserved, corners refreshed. Boards stained.
References: Osborne I, p. 379; V & A 1562-1565 and 1568.
Provenance: Christine Bateman (ownership inscription above Potter's presentation inscription), a gift from the author to Annie Bateman (mother of Christine Bateman), an artist and the first woman admitted to the Darlington School of Art.
*Note: Condition and provenance have been updated. From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2024 June 27 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part I, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6295 (go to Auction Home page)
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