![]() 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. had agreed to accept the book for publication in a regular trade edition. ![]() ![]() By this time, however, Beatrix Potter's career had already been given its first impetus, for the publisher Frederick Warne & Co. Finally, in 1901, she decided to have the book privately printed, at her own expense.The first issue comprised 250 copies.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. " sent the manuscript to at least six publishers without success. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper ("Beatrix Potter"). Original light gray pictorial boards, flat back (some very slight rubbing to extremities, palest spotting on endpapers).įIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (one of 250 copies), of the author's first book. Colored frontispiece and 41 black and white illustrations by Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit.ġ2 o (134 x 103 mm). ![]()
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