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Beatrix Potter's The tale of Peter Rabbit : a new printing from the original line-blocks made for the first private edition of 1901 / introduced by Maurice Sendak.

Accession number
PML 86371.1-35
Creator
Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943.
Published
Kingston, New York : Battledore Ltd, 1995.
Credit line
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball fund, 2001.
Notes
Plates are issued unbound, and each is enclosed in a numbered folder with excerpts from the text of The tale of Peter Rabbit printed on the front.
"Prints from the original blocks"--Spine of box.
Final leaf blank.
Library's copy: "250 copies 1-250. 25 copies hors commerce i-xxv. No. 48/250"--T.p. verso.
Library's copy signed in pencil by Maurice Sendak and Iain Bain on t.p. verso.
Description
23, [5] p., 34 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Binding
Olive green wrappers printed in black. Plates enclosed in grey folders printed in black. All are housed in a slate blue cloth-covered box with green leather label stamped in gold attached to spine, and grey label with ill. stamped in brown on cover.
Classification
Department