Beatrix Potter – The Tale Of Peter Rabbit – First Edition 1902
£8,750.00
First commercially published edition, first issue of ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ – grey boards – leaf-patterned end-papers – all first issue points sated. A very good copy without inscriptions. A slight crack to the front hinge. Corners a touch rubbed and small repair to the head of the spine. Some page with finger markings, but no losses and no inscriptions. The first trade edition has leaf-pattern end-papers and the text “wept big tears” on p. 51 (the text reads “cried big tears” in the privately printed edition; “wept big tears” in the first three impressions of the trade edition; and “shed big tears” from the fourth impression onwards). Linder, p. 421; Quinby 2.
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First commercially published edition, first issue of ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ – grey boards – leaf-patterned end-papers – all first issue points sated. A very good copy without inscriptions. A slight crack to the front hinge. Corners a touch rubbed and small repair to the head of the spine. Some page with finger markings, but no losses and no inscriptions. The first trade edition has leaf-pattern end-papers and the text “wept big tears” on p. 51 (the text reads “cried big tears” in the privately printed edition; “wept big tears” in the first three impressions of the trade edition; and “shed big tears” from the fourth impression onwards). Linder, p. 421; Quinby 2.
