POTTER, BEATRIX. Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit. A new printing from the original line-blocks made for the first Private Edition of 1901. Introduced by Maurice Sendak. Kingston, New York: Battledore Ltd., 1995. 34 plates. 12mo, each laid in individual printed folder; housed together with accompanying text booklet (12mo, green printed wrappers) in cloth folding case. LIMITED EDITION, number 118 of 250 set (of an edition 275) signed by Sendak and Iain Bain. Comprises restrikes of all the surviving linecut zinc plates (34 of a total of 42) that were used for printing the original 1901 private edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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POTTER, BEATRIX. Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit. A new printing from the original line-blocks made for the first Private Edition of 1901. Introduced by Maurice Sendak. Kingston, New York: Battledore Ltd., 1995. 34 plates. 12mo, each laid in individual printed folder; housed together with accompanying text booklet (12mo, green printed wrappers) in cloth folding case. LIMITED EDITION, number 118 of 250 set (of an edition 275) signed by Sendak and Iain Bain. Comprises restrikes of all the surviving linecut zinc plates (34 of a total of 42) that were used for printing the original 1901 private edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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