first trade edition in deluxe format, first, second or third printing, with “wept big tears on” present on p.51, 31 colour illustrations by Beatrix Potter leaf-pattern endpapers, page 8 plate damaged at top margin, adhesion abrasions affecting 2 other illustrations, ink inscription with rabbits doodle dated 1902 to head of half-title, hinges pulling with splitting to endpapers, original straw-yellow cloth with mounted colour illustration on upper cover, lettered & blocked in brown with publisher’s monogram and rabbit head detail, slightly rubbed, spine dulled, small ink marks to upper cover, [cf. Linder p.421], 16mo, Warne, [1902]. *** A very rare variant deluxe edition. This binding is not recorded in Linder (which notes that 2000 copies from the original 8000 were issued in green, light green or olive-green cloth), nor is it present in the V&A collection.
first trade edition in deluxe format, first, second or third printing, with “wept big tears on” present on p.51, 31 colour illustrations by Beatrix Potter leaf-pattern endpapers, page 8 plate damaged at top margin, adhesion abrasions affecting 2 other illustrations, ink inscription with rabbits doodle dated 1902 to head of half-title, hinges pulling with splitting to endpapers, original straw-yellow cloth with mounted colour illustration on upper cover, lettered & blocked in brown with publisher’s monogram and rabbit head detail, slightly rubbed, spine dulled, small ink marks to upper cover, [cf. Linder p.421], 16mo, Warne, [1902]. *** A very rare variant deluxe edition. This binding is not recorded in Linder (which notes that 2000 copies from the original 8000 were issued in green, light green or olive-green cloth), nor is it present in the V&A collection.
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