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Beatrix Potter

The Tailor of Cloucester

Inscription on title page, given as a Christmas gift 1903.

Provenance: Christie's East. Beatrix Potter. The Doris Frohnsdorff Collection. Original Drawings, Autograph Letters, first Editions and Ephemera. Wednesday, 16 April 1997.

New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1903. 85pp. Green paper on board with applied litho label. Color frontispiece of dancing couple in period costumes). 26 colored illustrations. The classic Beatrix Potter story about a nice tailor and thread wielding mice who repay his kindness. It was one of Potter's personal favorites of the stories she has written. First American edition. The illustrations, with fully clothed mice and coated cats, represent all the hallmarks of Potter's illustrative work and adds great visuals to a sweet story. Dark green paper boards. 5 1/2" x 4" Litho from back strip detached but present.

Price: $1,600.00

Item #28000821