(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. 31 color illustrations by Potter. Small 8vo, original charcoal grey boards printed in white with color pictorial cover onlay, expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip; grey-blue leaf patterned endpapers, very soft bend to upper outer corners of contents, hinges repaired (likely with endpapers supplied from another copy); custom 1/4 gilt-lettered taupe morocco over marbled board clamshell box; owner's bookplate on inside front cover. first edition, first issue of potter's most famous work, with "wept" for "shed" on page 51. Quinby 2; Linder 421. London & New York: Warne, [1902]