"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1910]. [Children's illustrated] VINTAGE EDITION. Sextodecimo (14 x 10cm), pp.85 [1]. Illustrated with twenty-seven coloured plates. Publisher's dark grey paper-covered boards, with white titles to spine and upper, an illustration laid-down to upper, and endpapers matching Quinby plate X. Small purple ink bookseller's stamp to front pastedown. Some spotting to edges, otherwise internally clean. Binding shows moderate general wear, with some scratches to the illustration on the upper board. Good. An enchanting, landmark children's book, first published in 1902. Item #75873
Jane Quinby - Beatrix Potter [Item No.2] (Hodgkins, 1983).
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