Nov 13, 2018 - Sale 2493

Sale 2493 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 3,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) POTTER , BEATRIX. The Tailor of Gloucester. Illustrated with 16 color plates by the author. 16mo, original pink pictorial boards, faint spotting; light foxing to pastedowns and endleaves, else contents clean. (London): [Privately printed for the Author by] (Strangeways & Sons), December, 1902

Additional Details

first edition, first issue, one of 500 copies printed. The second book written and illustrated by Potter, and her personal favorite among her own books. A fresh, tight copy. Linder, p. 420; Quinby 3.