POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. Title vignette and 27 color illustrations. 12mo, original floral cloth, upper cover with two gilt-lettered white cloth lettering pieces, color pictorial endpapers (Linder 1 [used four times]); contents cracked between pages 30/31, otherwise a clean copy. FIRST EDITION, second issue, IN DE-LUXE FLORAL CLOTH BINDING. The floral cloth fabric came from Beatrix Potter's grandfather's firm, Edmund Potter & Co. of Dinting Vale, Manchester. Quinby 5A(3); Linder, p. 423; V & A 1653 and note ("apparently there were no first printing sheets bound in fabric [LL Cat.]).