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The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Lot 45
25.04.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 81 900
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 743694
Lot 45 | The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). The Tale of Peter Rabbit. London: Privately printed, 1901. Privately printed first edition of Beatrix Potter's first book, one of only 250 copies of the first issue. "[Potter] sent the manuscript to at least six publishers without success. Finally, in 1901, she decided to have the book privately printed, at her own expense ... The books were ready on 16 December and Miss Potter began giving them away to selected friends and relatives and selling them to others at one shilling, two pence each. By this time, however, Beatrix Potter's career had already been given its first impetus, for the publisher Frederick Warne & Co. had agreed to accept the book for publication in a regular trade edition. But in February 1902, before the trade edition was ready, Miss Potter ordered another 200 copies to be printed of her private edition; this second issue had a rather better binding, with rounded back and darker printed boards” (Gottlieb). The present copy is from the first issue, with a flat spine. Gottlieb/Morgan Library, Early Children's Books and Their Illustration 220; Grolier Children’s 55; Linder, p. 420; Quinby 1. 12mo. Color frontispiece, monochrome illustrations throughout. Original light grey pictorial boards with a flat spine (some minor foxing to paper edges occasionally visible on pages). Custom chemise and morocco-backed box.
Place of origin:United Kingdom
Auction house category:Printed books
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