The Tailor of Gloucester

Lot 51
25.04.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 743700
Lot 51 | The Tailor of Gloucester
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$ 800 – 1 200
POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Frederick Warne, 1903.First trade edition, in deluxe cloth floral binding. According to a letter Beatrix Potter wrote to Norman Warne in early 1903, the idea was hers to use cloth from her grandfather’s calico printing factory for deluxe covers. Linder, p. 423; Quinby 4. 12mo. Color frontispiece and 26 color plates by Beatrix Potter. Original floral cloth with gilt-lettered labels, pictorial endpapers, first printing with single-page design used four times (a little fading to spine and cloth, corners just rounded, text block tender). Provenance: “Hartley” (ownership inscription to front free endpaper) – Harry Bacon Collamore, noted Potter collector of Hartford, Connecticut (bookplate opposite half-title). Good$
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