[ Books ] POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frontispiece and 16 color plates by Potter. 12mo, original pictorial pink boards, front cover faded and with dampstaining, two-millimeter silverfish hole along left side of spine with a smaller,

[ Books ] POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frontispiece and 16 color plates by Potter. 12mo, original pictorial pink boards, front cover faded and with dampstaining, two-millimeter silverfish hole along left side of spine with a smaller, pin-hole sized one beneath; usual light offsetting to endpapers. [London: privately printed by Strangeways and Sons], December 1902 E2,000/3,000 FIRST EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES of Potter's second book. The Tailor of Gloucester was Potter's favorite of all her books; she preferred this private edition to Warne's because it contained more of the original rhymes. Linder 420; Osborne I, 379.