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Tailor of Gloucester, The

by POTTER, Beatrix

$5,500 · 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. Minimal darkening to spine, light foxing to endpapers, still a fine copy. “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 buttonhole and a note. Set in 18th-century Gloucester, the story centers on a poor, elderly tailor who is commissio

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

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