Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, first edition, first issue

Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, first edition, first issue [one of 500 copies], colour frontispiece and 15 colour plates, light toning to endpapers, neat repairs to one or two plates, light splitting to gutter but holding firm, original pick boards with lettering and pictorial design in black, some spotting and fading, spine ends and joints nicked and frayed, still an excellent example overall, [Linder 420; Quinby 3], 16mo, [Privately printed for the Author by Strangeways & Sons], December 1902. *** Beatrix Potter's favourite of her own works.

Estimate:£1,200

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