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MAURICE SENDAK. Potter, Beatrix.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
New impressions
from Potter’s original line blocks used to illustrated the privately printed First Edition of
1901. Accompanying booklet with introductory letterpress essay by Sendak. 12mo,
contents loose as issued in publisher’s folding cloth box with spine and cover labels. Not
from Orenstein collection. Kingston, NY, 1995
[2,000/3,000]
NUMBER
4
OF
250
COPIES SIGNED BY SENDAKWITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY HIM OF PETER
RABBIT
.
A complete collection of all 34 surviving restrikes printed from the original zinc plates (of the
original 42 plates, 8 were never recovered) which were located and identified after nearly a century.
Production and design was organized by Iain Bain in conjunction with Alecto Historical Editions.
The colophon is Signed by Bain as well.
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