The Tale of Peter Rabbit
$225,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books
First edition
London : Privately Printed, 1901 . An unusually fine copy of the privately printed first edition, which preceded the trade edition by two years. Unpaginated 84 pp . Illustrated with color frontispiece and 41 full page black and white line drawings, each faced by accompanying text. Bound in publisher's plain boards lettered in black with cover vignette depicting four rabbits. Fine. Small faint stain to front cover and faint
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