Potter, Beatrix.

The Tailor of Gloucester.  [Privately Printed for the Author], December 1902, 16mo, first edition [limited to 500 copies], 15 coloured illustrations, original pictorial pink boards, lacking one plate, some spotting and browning, binding worn and soiled with some loss; The Tale of Two Bad Mice. Frederick Warne & Co., 1904, 16mo, first edition, first or second issue, 27 coloured illustrations, original red cloth, minor tear to pp.47-48, minor splitting at head of upper joint; The Pie and the Patty-Pan. Frederick Warne & Co., 1905, 4to, first edition, first issue, 10 coloured and numerous black and white illustrations, original maroon boards, some spotting and browning; Ginger and Pickles. Frederick Warne & Co., 1909, 4to, first edition, first or second issue, 10 coloured and numerous black and white illustrations, original green boards, minor splitting to upper hinge, minor tears to foot of spine; The Tale of Mr Tod. Frederick Warne & Co., 1912, 16mo, first edition, first or second issue, 15 coloured and numerous black and white illustrations, original buff boards, rebacked with new spine; The Tale of Pigling Bland. Frederick Warne & Co., 1913, 16mo, first edition, first or second issue, 15 coloured and numerous black and white illustrations, original maroon boards; all but the first with pictorial label on upper cover, some spotting and browning, occasional splitting at gutter, bindings slightly worn with extremities slightly bumped (6)

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