POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, London: Frederick Warne, [October-December 1902], 16°, FIRST WARNE EDITION, EARLY PRINTING, with "wept big tears" on p. 51 and leaf-pattern endpapers, coloured frontispiece and 30 coloured plates after Beatrix Potter (occasional light soiling, minor ink marks to pages 8 & 9), original light brown cloth with red lettering, mounted pictorial label on upper cover (lightly rubbed, upper joint broken, blue pencil doodles on back endpapers). [Linder p. 421; Quinby 2]
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, London: Frederick Warne, [October-December 1902], 16°, FIRST WARNE EDITION, EARLY PRINTING, with "wept big tears" on p. 51 and leaf-pattern endpapers, coloured frontispiece and 30 coloured plates after Beatrix Potter (occasional light soiling, minor ink marks to pages 8 & 9), original light brown cloth with red lettering, mounted pictorial label on upper cover (lightly rubbed, upper joint broken, blue pencil doodles on back endpapers). [Linder p. 421; Quinby 2]
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