Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Peter Rabbit,first commercial edition, fourth printing, 31 colour plates and plain title vignette by the author, leaf-patterned endpapers, 2 plates used for tracing leaving outline indent, some finger and other light marking, contemporary ink name and remains of bookseller's small sticker on front endpapers, some wear to rear free endpaper possibly due to removal of sticker, upper hinge cracked with splitting to endpapers, original dark grey/green boards, lettered in white, mounted colour illustration on upper cover, overall externally very good, [Linder 421; cf. Quinby 2; V&A 1645], 16mo, Warne, [April 1903].

***The first impression to have "wept big tears" replaced by "shed big tears" on page 51..