Privately Printed First Edition Of the Tailor Of Gloucester. POTTER, BEATRIX. 1866-1943. The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Strangeways and Sons Printers, 1902. 12mo (132 x 105 mm). 15 color plates including frontispiece. Original pink pictorial boards. Joints starting, some soiling, light spotting to a few leaves. PRIVATELY PRINTED FIRST EDITION, one of only 500 copies of Beatrix Potter's first book after The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902). Like its predecessor, it was issued in a small privately printed edition before Frederick Warne & Co. put out a trade edition in October 1903. The Tailor of Gloucester was Potter's personal favorite of all her books which she always preferred in the earlier printing. The story was based on a legend about a real tailor that she first heard in the home of a cousin in Gloucester in 1897. She sketched the actual locations of the tale for her illustrations. Osborne I, 379; Linder 420; Quinby 3. Lot to be sold without reserve. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤ Bonhams or one of its affiliated companies within the Bonhams Group owns the lot in whole or in part or has an economic interest equivalent to an ownership interest in the lot. ¤ Unless indicated by the ¤ symbol next to the lot number (or bearing an explicit statement such as 'No Reserve' or 'Without Reserve'), which denotes no reserve, all lots in the catalog are subject to a reserve. The reserve is the minimum hammer price that the seller is willing to accept for a lot. This amount is confidential and does not exceed the low estimate value. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing