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Tailor of Gloucester, The

by POTTER, Beatrix

$6,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

London: Privately Printed by Strangeways and Sons, 1902. The First Privately Printed Edition of Beatrix Potter’s Scarce Second Book POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. [London: Privately Printed by Strangeways and Sons], December 1902. First (privately printed) edition of Beatrix Potter’s scarce second book. One of 500 copies printed. Twelvemo (5 3/16 x 4 inches; 131 x 102 mm.). [96] pp. Color frontispiece and fifteen color plates. Original pink boards pictorially stamped and lettered in black on front cover. A fine copy. Chemised in an orange cloth folder and housed in a fleece-lined quarter orange morocco over orange cloth boards, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in compartments. “Her privately printed edition of Peter Rabbit having enjoyed some success, Beatrix Potter decided to have this next work brought out in the same manner…It has a format similar to the privately printed Peter Rabbit, but with a binding of pink printed boards and a rounded back instead of a flat one. Miss Potter ordered 500 copies printed; they were ready by the middle of December 1902” (Morgan Library, Early Children’s Books). The Tailor of Gloucester is a charming Christmas story written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and one she regarded as her personal favorite. The tale was inspired by a true incident from the 1890s involving a Gloucester tailor named John Prichard, whose assistants secretly finished a mayor’s ceremonial suit, leaving it nearly complete save for a single

  • Publisher: London: Privately Printed by Strangeways and Sons, 1902
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: unknown

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