POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. London: Frederick Warne and Co., n.d. [1903]. Title vignette and 31 color illustrations, including frontispiece. 12mo, original dark brown paper boards, upper cover with inset color pictorial label, grey holly leaf patterned endpapers, slight blistering to cover label; upper hinge cracked. Fourth printing (April, 1903), with the text on page 51 now changed to read "shed big tears." Linder states 8250 copies were printed. Linder, p. 427; V & A 1631 (in a variant binding).

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POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. London: Frederick Warne and Co., n.d. [1903]. Title vignette and 31 color illustrations, including frontispiece. 12mo, original dark brown paper boards, upper cover with inset color pictorial label, grey holly leaf patterned endpapers, slight blistering to cover label; upper hinge cracked. Fourth printing (April, 1903), with the text on page 51 now changed to read "shed big tears." Linder states 8250 copies were printed. Linder, p. 427; V & A 1631 (in a variant binding).