Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Frederick Warne & Co.
1905
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An early edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter.
- Beatrix Potter (English).
- London: Frederick Warne & Co., [1905].
- 16mo.
- Color frontispiece, plain title vignette, 23 color illustrations.
- Bound in the publisher's brown paper covered boards with fielded illustrative paste-down of Peter Rabbit, illustrated endpapers.
The rarer fourth printing. Beloved by generations of children but banned in 1985 by the Inner London Education Authority for the portrayal of exclusively 'middle-class rabbits.'
Condition Report
GoodContemporary ink manuscript to upper free endpaper; ' Xmas 1905/Nancy Lloyd-Grant,' with later ink name below: 'Tammy Grant.'
The very occasional, minor mark or spot.
Overall very clean and bright.
A tad rubbed on corners and spine ends, as well as slight wear to illustrated paste-down.
Minor signs of age and handling.
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