The Tale of Peter Rabbit

£25,000

Category

Childrens and Illustrated

Illustrator

Potter, Beatrix

Reference

1517

[86]p. Original boards, rounded spine, black blocked title and rabbit vignette to upper cover

Rubbed to extremities, very light soiling to covers, minor abrasions above title, small chip to head of spine. Edges of text block lightly foxed, with light foxing to endpapers, title and first few pages, small red pen dot to rear free endpaper, generally quite bright and clean. Colour frontispiece and forty-one line drawings throughout. Now housed in a velvet-lined drop back box made by Temple Bookbinders, with the title blocked to the spine and the front cover of the book replicated on the front cover of the box

The second impression of the privately printed work by Potter (with the rounded back rather than the flat back), with only two hundred copies

Linder page 420; Quinby 1A

Year

1902

Condition

Good+

Edition

Second Impression