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The Tailor of Gloucester, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 500 COPIES], 16 colour plates, light spotting/toning to endpapers, publisher's pink boards, upper cover with printed lettering and illustration of three mice (light spotting) [Linder p.420; Quinby 3], 16mo, [London, privately printed by Strangeways], December 1902
Footnotes:
FIRST PRIVATELY PRINTED EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. Beatrix Potter paid for the printing of this edition, which differs considerably, both in text and illustrations, to the first trade edition published by Frederick Warne the following year. Warne substantially reduced the length of the text, left out some of the original illustrations, and added others. One of those omitted depicted 'the rats carousing the cellar under the Mayor of Gloucester's shop - one them drinking out of a black bottle', Potter later writing that 'For the life of me I could not see why Mr. Warne insisted on cutting it out' (quoted in Linder, A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, 1971).
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