The Tale of Peter Rabbit
£2,500 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1902. Children's illustrated FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, and first colour plate edition. Text on p.51, line 1 wept big tears, fourth printing onwards has shed big tears . Sextodecimo 14 x 10cm , pp.86. Illustrated with twenty-seven coloured plates, pp.98. Publisher's dark grey paper-covered boards, illustration laid-down to upper, grey leaf-patterned endpapers. A presentable, used example with a short gift note to
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