The Tailor of Gloucester
$12,500 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · In dust jacket
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1903. First published edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. First issue (printed October 1903), with a single-page endpaper occurring four times. A nearly Fine copy in Very Good + dust jacket. Twelvemo (5 7/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 139 x 105 mm.). 85, [1, printers imprint] pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Seventeen illustrations are entirely new for this edition; eleven of the illustrations are repeated from the December 1902 privately printed edition. Original maroon boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white on spine. Color pictorial label on front cover within a blind panel in the shape of a truncated pyramid outlined in blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate I, a single-page endpaper occurring four times). Minimal fading to spine. Small circular booksellers label on rear pastedown. In the rare correct glazed paper glassine dust jacket printed in black with the price 1/- NET at foot of spine, an advertisement for The Peter Rabbit Books on the back panel listing The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, and The Tailor of Gloucester, and with vertical lines at the top and bottom of the spine indicating where the fold should come for the front panel. The jacket has a few very small chips along the top edge (the largest being a 3/8 inch piece missing at the top of the spine), but is certainly the finest jacket for this title that we have ever seen. Housed in
- Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co
- Year: 1903
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: unknown
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