Beatrix Potter – The Tale Of Peter Rabbit – Fourth Edition 1903
£1,250.00
First commercially published edition, fourth edition (1903) of ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ – grey boards – leaf-patterned endpapers. A very good (or better) copy with one neat name to the front endpaper. Crease and breaking of the front pastedown, a few small marks, rubbing to the head and foot of the spine – strengthening to the gutters front and rear. The first trade edition has leaf-pattern endpapers and the text “wept big tears” on p. 51 – this, the fourth, shares the leaf patterned endpapers, but has “shed big tears” on page 51. Linder, p. 421; Quinby 2.
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First commercially published edition, fourth edition (1903) of ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ – grey boards – leaf-patterned endpapers. A very good (or better) copy with one neat name to the front endpaper. Crease and breaking of the front pastedown, a few small marks, rubbing to the head and foot of the spine – strengthening to the gutters front and rear. The first trade edition has leaf-pattern endpapers and the text “wept big tears” on p. 51 – this, the fourth, shares the leaf patterned endpapers, but has “shed big tears” on page 51. Linder, p. 421; Quinby 2.
