Beatrix Potter | The Tale of Peter Rabbit. London, 1902

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Peter Rabbit. [Privately Printed for the Author, December 1901]

FIRST PRIVATELY PRINTED EDITION, SECOND PRINTING [LIMITED TO 200 COPIES] OF THE FIRST PETER RABBIT BOOK, 16mo (131 x 103mm.), coloured frontispiece and 41 black and white illustrations by Beatrix Potter, original green-grey paper pictorial boards, rounded spine, collector's green cloth and morocco-backed slipcase from the Chelsea Bindery, light browning and soiling, some splitting between gatherings, spine and boards lightly discoloured, extremities rubbed

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Linder p.420