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Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943) The Tailor of Gloucester. New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1903. First American edition, 12mo, illustrated with a color frontispiece (man and woman in period dress on a cobblestone street with Simpkin in the background),twenty-six color illustrations, bound in publisher's dark green boards with inset color illustration of a mouse seated on a thimble reading the paper, spine detached, boards rubbed, Schlueter imprint on verso of last leaf, 5 1/2 x 4 in.
N.B. This copy was sold at Christie's East, the Doris Frohnsdorff Collection, April 16, 1997.
Estimate $400-600
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