POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tailor of Gloucester. [London: Privately Printed by Strangeways and Sons] December 1902. Colored frontispiece of a mouse sitting on a spool of cotton and 15 color illustrations. 12mo, boards, printed cover supplied in facsimile; some light soiling and staining. FIRST EDITION, limited issue one of 500 copies, of Potter's scarce second book, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed and signed by Potter on front free endpaper: "To Kate with love from Beatrix Potter Christmas 1902." Kate was probably Potter's cousin. Quinby 3; Linder, p.420; V&A 1562-65 and 1568.