POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, London: Strangeways and Sons Printers [Privately Published], February 1902, 16° in 8s, SECOND PRIVATE EDITION, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, coloured frontispiece and 41 line block illustrations (one page with small ink stain, some light dust-soiling not affecting plates), original lime-green pictorial paper boards, rounded back (head and foot of spine very lightly rubbed, black ink line on upper cover dissecting title), plain endpapers. [Quinby 1a; Linder p. 420] Provenance: "To 'Victoria' from Grandmama, Feb. 13th 1902" (inscription on front free endpaper) and by descent.

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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, London: Strangeways and Sons Printers [Privately Published], February 1902, 16° in 8s, SECOND PRIVATE EDITION, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, coloured frontispiece and 41 line block illustrations (one page with small ink stain, some light dust-soiling not affecting plates), original lime-green pictorial paper boards, rounded back (head and foot of spine very lightly rubbed, black ink line on upper cover dissecting title), plain endpapers. [Quinby 1a; Linder p. 420] Provenance: "To 'Victoria' from Grandmama, Feb. 13th 1902" (inscription on front free endpaper) and by descent.

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ASSOCIATION COPY. Victoria was the youngest daughter of Blanche Wrigley (neé Potter), cousin of Beatrix Potter. 'Grandmama' was probably Mary Anderson, wife of Beatrix's uncle, Edmund Crompton Potter.

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