POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, London: Frederick Warne, [1902]. 12° (140 x 105mm.). Half title, 31 coloured plates by Beatrix Potter. (Title very lightly waterstained at margins, first text leaf with piece torn away from margin, a few plates torn, one with a tear 50mm. long but not touching image, some light mainly marginal soiling and staining). Original brown paper-covered boards lettered in white with 'O's dotted, coloured pictorial label mounted on upper cover, leaf-pattern endpapers. (Extremities rubbed, joints splitting, small glue stain at head of upper joints). Provenance: "Kathleen, 1903" (inscription on front free endpaper) and K. T. Smith, Liverpool, 1903 (pencil inscriptions on endpapers). FIRST TRADE EDITION, with "wept big tears" on p. 51. Linder p. 421: "8,000 copies"; Osborne II, 1021; Quinby 2.

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POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, London: Frederick Warne, [1902]. 12° (140 x 105mm.). Half title, 31 coloured plates by Beatrix Potter. (Title very lightly waterstained at margins, first text leaf with piece torn away from margin, a few plates torn, one with a tear 50mm. long but not touching image, some light mainly marginal soiling and staining). Original brown paper-covered boards lettered in white with 'O's dotted, coloured pictorial label mounted on upper cover, leaf-pattern endpapers. (Extremities rubbed, joints splitting, small glue stain at head of upper joints). Provenance: "Kathleen, 1903" (inscription on front free endpaper) and K. T. Smith, Liverpool, 1903 (pencil inscriptions on endpapers). FIRST TRADE EDITION, with "wept big tears" on p. 51. Linder p. 421: "8,000 copies"; Osborne II, 1021; Quinby 2.