Accession number
PML 87765
Creator
Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943.
Published
[London : Privately printed], December, 1902. Copyright.
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
"London: Strangeways and Sons, Printers, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, W.C."--Colophon.
16 plates (colored) of illustration, versos blank.
Privately printed edition; Quinby includes plates in pagination.
It was in the Hutton's house at Stroud that "The Tailor of Gloucester" was first written. Miss Jane Quinby, in her "Beatrix Potter," quotes from the original autograph MS of the story on the first page of which the author has written, "I had the story from Miss Caroline Hutton, who had it from Miss Lucy of Gloucester, who had it of the Tailor."
Inscription of front fly leaf: "H. Mary Hutton."
16 plates (colored) of illustration, versos blank.
Privately printed edition; Quinby includes plates in pagination.
It was in the Hutton's house at Stroud that "The Tailor of Gloucester" was first written. Miss Jane Quinby, in her "Beatrix Potter," quotes from the original autograph MS of the story on the first page of which the author has written, "I had the story from Miss Caroline Hutton, who had it from Miss Lucy of Gloucester, who had it of the Tailor."
Inscription of front fly leaf: "H. Mary Hutton."
Description
[64] p. : [16] col. ill. ; 14 cm.
Provenance
H. Mary Hutton (inscription); from the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Publisher's pink boards, in red cloth folding case.
Classification
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