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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. London: Frederick Warne and Co., [October, 1902].
12o. Title vignette and 31 color plates including frontispiece. Original dark bluish-grey boards, upper cover with inset color pictorial label, grey holly-leaf endpapers, fine.
FIRST TRADE EDITION, first state of page 51 ("wept big tears"), preceded by the two issues of the privately printed edition (250 and 200 copies, respectively), which each contained a color frontispiece and 41 black-and-white illustrations. The text and illustratons of the first trade edition were engraved and printed by Edmund Evans and it contains four color plates that do not appear after the fourth impression. Quinby 2; Linder, p. 421; V & A 1628. A VERY FINE COPY. [With:] A plush toy of Peter Rabbit (18" tall). (2)
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FIRST TRADE EDITION, first state of page 51 ("wept big tears"), preceded by the two issues of the privately printed edition (250 and 200 copies, respectively), which each contained a color frontispiece and 41 black-and-white illustrations. The text and illustratons of the first trade edition were engraved and printed by Edmund Evans and it contains four color plates that do not appear after the fourth impression. Quinby 2; Linder, p. 421; V & A 1628. A VERY FINE COPY. [With:] A plush toy of Peter Rabbit (18" tall). (2)
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