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Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, first edition, first printing with date on title and single-page endpaper recurring 4 times, art fabric deluxe issue, colour frontispiece and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, ink gift inscription dated Xmas 1903 to front free endpaper, original floral-patterned cloth with white buckram onlays ruled and lettered in gilt, light browning to spine and fore-edges, minor bumping to spine ends and corners but a very good copy overall, [Linder pp. 423], 16mo, 1903.
*** Following the lacklustre sales of the Peter Rabbit deluxe edition, Warne suggested the use of brocade for the deluxe bindings of The Tailor of Gloucester and Squirrel Nutkin. Potter obtained samples of material from Edmund Potter & Co. of Manchester, her grandfather's textile printing works. This copy has the scarcer of the two frontispieces, replicating the cover design of the trade edition.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/dcba83d0-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/5c2a70ee-6191-ee11-8178-002248070a4a.webp "13
Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, first edition, first printing with date on title and single-page endpaper recurring 4 times, art fabric deluxe issue, colour frontispiece and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, ink gift inscription dated Xmas 1903 to front free endpaper, original floral-patterned cloth with white buckram onlays ruled and lettered in gilt, light browning to spine and fore-edges, minor bumping to spine ends and corners but a very good copy overall, [Linder pp. 423], 16mo, 1903.
*** Following the lacklustre sales of the Peter Rabbit deluxe edition, Warne suggested the use of brocade for the deluxe bindings of The Tailor of Gloucester and Squirrel Nutkin. Potter obtained samples of material from Edmund Potter & Co. of Manchester, her grandfather's textile printing works. This copy has the scarcer of the two frontispieces, replicating the cover design of the trade edition.")
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Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, first edition, first printing with date on title and single-page endpaper recurring 4 times, art fabric deluxe issue, colour frontispiece and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, ink gift inscription dated Xmas 1903 to front free endpaper, original floral-patterned cloth with white buckram onlays ruled and lettered in gilt, light browning to spine and fore-edges, minor bumping to spine ends and corners but a very good copy overall, [Linder pp. 423], 16mo, 1903.
⁂ Following the lacklustre sales of the Peter Rabbit deluxe edition, Warne suggested the use of brocade for the deluxe bindings of The Tailor of Gloucester and Squirrel Nutkin. Potter obtained samples of material from Edmund Potter & Co. of Manchester, her grandfather's textile printing works. This copy has the scarcer of the two frontispieces, replicating the cover design of the trade edition.
Lot 13
Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, first edition, art fabric deluxe issue, 1903.
Hammer Price: £1,300
Description
Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, first edition, first printing with date on title and single-page endpaper recurring 4 times, art fabric deluxe issue, colour frontispiece and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, ink gift inscription dated Xmas 1903 to front free endpaper, original floral-patterned cloth with white buckram onlays ruled and lettered in gilt, light browning to spine and fore-edges, minor bumping to spine ends and corners but a very good copy overall, [Linder pp. 423], 16mo, 1903.
⁂ Following the lacklustre sales of the Peter Rabbit deluxe edition, Warne suggested the use of brocade for the deluxe bindings of The Tailor of Gloucester and Squirrel Nutkin. Potter obtained samples of material from Edmund Potter & Co. of Manchester, her grandfather's textile printing works. This copy has the scarcer of the two frontispieces, replicating the cover design of the trade edition.
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