Description
Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, first edition, first printing with date on title and single-page endpaper recurring 4 times, deluxe issue in rare trial binding, colour frontispiece and 27 colour plates, upper hinge cracked but holding firm, original red morocco, lettered in gilt on upper cover, upper joint cracked at foot, minor chipping to spine ends, spine a little rubbed, light wear to corners, still an excellent copy, g.e., [Not in Linder or Quinby], 16mo, 1903.
⁂ An excellent example of this scarce variant trial binding, we know of only one other copy (see Peter Harrington catalogue no.122, item 17, see also lot 7)
Includes an additional colour plate before the frontispiece featuring the illustration used on the upper cover of the first trade edition (this plate was also used as the rarer of the two frontispieces for the art fabric edition).
Lot 12
Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, first edition, deluxe issue in rare trial binding, 1903.
Hammer Price: £1,600
Description
Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, first edition, first printing with date on title and single-page endpaper recurring 4 times, deluxe issue in rare trial binding, colour frontispiece and 27 colour plates, upper hinge cracked but holding firm, original red morocco, lettered in gilt on upper cover, upper joint cracked at foot, minor chipping to spine ends, spine a little rubbed, light wear to corners, still an excellent copy, g.e., [Not in Linder or Quinby], 16mo, 1903.
⁂ An excellent example of this scarce variant trial binding, we know of only one other copy (see Peter Harrington catalogue no.122, item 17, see also lot 7)
Includes an additional colour plate before the frontispiece featuring the illustration used on the upper cover of the first trade edition (this plate was also used as the rarer of the two frontispieces for the art fabric edition).