"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
The Tailor of Gloucester.
London: Frederick Warne, 1903. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Sextodecimo (15 x 11cm), pp.86. Illustrated with twenty-seven coloured plates, illustrated endpapers [double end-paper repeated twice, indicating second printing]. Publisher's maroon paper over boards, with white titles to spine and upper, and a colour illustration laid onto upper. Contents generally clean, vintage tape mark to gutter before frontis, no ink inscriptions, light rubbing to boards/joints. Potter's third book for children (1903), following 'Peter Rabbit' (1902) and 'Squirrel Nutkin' (1903). Item #76031
Quinby 4.
Price: £275.00
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