Tale of Peter Rabbit
$35,000 · Offered by Biblio
Signed
London: [Privately printed], 1902. POTTER, Beatrix. London: Privately Printed by Strangeways], February 1902. First (privately printed) edition, second issue. One of 200 copies printed. Twelvemo (5 3/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 131 x 103 mm.). [84] pp. Color frontispiece and forty-one full-page black and white text illustrations. Original olive green boards pictorially stamped and lettered in black on front cover. Spine rounded (not flat). Spine a bit darkened, with extremities very lightly rubbed. A few minor scratches to front cover. Occasional very minor finger soiling. A near fine copy of this extremely rare edition. Housed in a quarter speckled calf clamshell case. An excellent association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to Victoria, the youngest daughter of Blanche Wrigley (n?e Potter), Beatrix Potter?s cousin: ?To/?Victoria?/from/Grandmama/Feb. 13th, 1902.? ?Grandmama? was probably Mary Anderson, the wife of Beatrix Potter?s uncle, Edmund Crompton Potter. ?The first issue comprised 250 copies; they are distinguished by a flat-backed binding of gray-green boards, printed with a black-line drawing. The books were ready on 16 December and Miss Potter began giving them away to selected friends and relatives and selling them to others at one shilling two pence each. By this time, however, Beatrix Potter?s career had already been given its first impetus, for the publisher Frederick Warne & Co. had agreed to accept the book for publication in a regular trade edition. But i
- Publisher: [Privately printed]
- Year: 1902
- Binding: unknown
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