The Tailor of Gloucester.
by POTTER, Beatrix
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Frederick Warne, 1903. . First trade edition, first issue with date on title-page and a single-page endpaper repeated four times; 16mo; 27 full-page colour illustrations, title vignette and pictorial endpapers by the author; publisher's dark green boards with inset colour illustration, presented in later cloth solander box.
An exceptional copy of the first Warne edition of The Tailor of Gloucester, of which the author & illustrator Beatrix Potter wrote 'my own favourite amongst my little books' (cf. Linder, The History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, 1987, p.121).
Quinby 4.
An exceptional copy of the first Warne edition of The Tailor of Gloucester, of which the author & illustrator Beatrix Potter wrote 'my own favourite amongst my little books' (cf. Linder, The History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, 1987, p.121).
Quinby 4.
Synopsis
The Tailor of Gloucester is a children's novel by Beatrix Potter that was first published in October 1903. The story tells of a group of mice helping a tailor finish his work in time for Christmas. It is traditionally read to children on Christmas Eve, just before bed time.
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 99058
- Title
- The Tailor of Gloucester.
- Author
- POTTER, Beatrix
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Frederick Warne, 1903.
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