first edition, first issue , [one of 500 copies], 16 colour plates by the author, one or two small spots, endpapers browned, original pink boards lettered and illustrated in black with rounded spine, foxing, more visible on upper cover, very minor wear to spine ends but overall a tight & sharp copy, housed in pink cloth drop-back box, [Linder 420 & pp.114; Quinby 3; Taylor, Whalley, Hobbs, Battrick pp.59-60; Gottlieb/Morgan 221; Osborne, p. 379], 16mo, [ Privately printed for the Author by Strangeways, December, 1902]. The Tailor of Gloucester was the author's favourite among all her works, writing of this edition "I find that children of the right age - 12 - like it best; the smaller ones who could learn off the short sentences of Peter find this one too long."