Potter (Beatrix)

The Tale of Peter Rabbit, first trade edition, first, second or third printing with "wept big tears" on p.51, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 30 colour plates, original brown boards with mounted colour illustration, floral endpapers with a contemporary inscription to endpaper and booksellers label to front paste-down, very lightly rubbed at extremities, and slightly ‘cocked’, Quinby, No. 2. 16mo, Frederick Warne, [1902].