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POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. Title vignette and 27 color illustrations. 12mo, original dark brown boards, upper cover with inset with circular color pictorial label, color pictorial endpapers (Linder 1 [used four times]); owner's ink inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise a very good copy. FIRST EDITION, second issue, with broken type on p. 45. This copy is bound in the brown boards, presumably specially bound for the Liberty store (See V & A 1655). Linder, p. 423; V & A 1655 (Beatrix Potter's copy, which is inscribed "Copy bound for Liberty Oct. 1903").