The Tailor of Gloucester.
$1,294 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
Maroon board binding with mouse and title on the front board. Restored. Presented in a new maroon cloth backed box. Dimensions are for the box. We provide an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feeling and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available. A first edition, first printing published by Warne in 1903. A very good book without inscriptions, rubbed to corners and a little to the spine - square and compact binding - date to the title indicating first edition. This lovely edition is now cleverly boxed by Mr. Brian Cole. The Tailor of Gloucester is a Christmas children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, privately printed by the author in 1902, and published in a trade edition by >Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1903. The story is about a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished by the grateful mice he rescues from his cat and was based on a real world incident involving a tailor and his assistants. For years, Potter declared that of all her books it was her personal favourite. Helen Beatrix Heelis (née Potter; 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943), usually known as Beatrix Potter, was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. She is best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which was her first commercially published work in 1902. Her books, including The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck and The Tale of Tom Kitten, have sold more than 2
- Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co.
- Year: 1903
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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