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Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Peter Rabbit, first commercial edition in deluxe format, first, second or third printing, with 'wept big tears' on p.51, 31 colour illustrations by Beatrix Potter, leaf pattern endpapers, some light cockling, occasional minor marking to margins, gift inscription dated Xmas 1902 on front endpaper, endpapers split with slight loss to head of front endpapers gutter, original green cloth with mounted colour illustration on upper cover, lettered and blocked in brown with publisher's monogram and rabbit head detail, skilfully rebacked, retaining original backstrip, slightly rubbed and dulled at spine, t.e.g., [Linder p.421], 16mo, Frederick Warne & Co., [1902].