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POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. London: Frederick Warne and Co., n.d. [1903]. Title vignette and 27 color illustrations, including frontispiece. 12mo, original dark brown paper boards, upper cover with inset color pictorial label, color pictorial endpapers (Linder 1 [used four times]); contents cracked between pages 30/31, some minor marginal soiling, otherwise fine. Fifth printing (October, 1903), with pictorial endpapers used for the first time, and fewer number of color plates. The illustration which appears on the cover is one of the dropped illustrations (previously it had been repeated on p. 26). Linder, p. 422; V & A 1632.