Author: POTTER, Beatrix
Title: Tailor of Gloucester, the
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Co, 19031. First Published Edition The Tailor of Gloucester POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1903. First published edition, first issue (printed October 1903), with a single-page endpaper occurring four times. Twelvemo (5 7/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 139 x 105 mm.). 85, [1, printer’s imprint] pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Seventeen illustrations are entirely new for this edition; eleven of the illustrations are repeated from the December 1902 privately printed edition. Original maroon boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white on spine. Color pictorial label on front cover within a blind panel in the shape of a truncated pyramid outlined in blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate I, a single-page endpaper occurring four times). Neat early ink inscription on half-title "To Donald/24.9.06/From Mother, Oscar & Doris". The absolute bare minimum of fading to spine, light foxing to top edge only. A fine copy. “The year 1903 appears on the front of the title-page of the first two printings. The first printing [October 1903] has a single-page end-paper occurring four times, and the second printing [December 1903], a double-page end-paper occurring twice. In the art fabric de-luxe edition, some copies have the usual frontispiece, others have the cover picture in its place. Both pictures were printed on one sheet, which was cut in half, and each half used as a tipped-in frontispiece. With this binding there was no cover picture” (Linder, p. 423). Linder, p. 423. Quinby 4. V & A 1576. .
Keywords: Illustrated Books
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Title: Tailor of Gloucester, the
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Co, 19031. First Published Edition The Tailor of Gloucester POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1903. First published edition, first issue (printed October 1903), with a single-page endpaper occurring four times. Twelvemo (5 7/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 139 x 105 mm.). 85, [1, printer’s imprint] pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Seventeen illustrations are entirely new for this edition; eleven of the illustrations are repeated from the December 1902 privately printed edition. Original maroon boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white on spine. Color pictorial label on front cover within a blind panel in the shape of a truncated pyramid outlined in blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate I, a single-page endpaper occurring four times). Neat early ink inscription on half-title "To Donald/24.9.06/From Mother, Oscar & Doris". The absolute bare minimum of fading to spine, light foxing to top edge only. A fine copy. “The year 1903 appears on the front of the title-page of the first two printings. The first printing [October 1903] has a single-page end-paper occurring four times, and the second printing [December 1903], a double-page end-paper occurring twice. In the art fabric de-luxe edition, some copies have the usual frontispiece, others have the cover picture in its place. Both pictures were printed on one sheet, which was cut in half, and each half used as a tipped-in frontispiece. With this binding there was no cover picture” (Linder, p. 423). Linder, p. 423. Quinby 4. V & A 1576. .
Keywords: Illustrated Books
Price: US$ 1000.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 06089
- Book number: 06089
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