THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER
THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER | Rare and modern books | Potter
THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER
THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER | Rare and modern books | Potter
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1931
- Place of printing
- New York
- Author
- Potter
- Publishers
- Frederick Warne & Company, Inc.
- Languages
- English
Description
Illustrated with 27 colourplates and pictorially decorated endleaves, by the author. 12mo, original blue-green pictorially decorated paper covered boards. [59] pp. A good copy, well preserved with tight and sound hinges, clean internally, the covers with some light edgewear.
Edizione: potter's favorite of her twenty-three tales. it was the second work she finished. she printed it privately in 1901. it would be the third published by frederick warne coming right on heals of squirrel nutkin in 1903. the tale was based on a real world incident involving john pritchard, a gloucester tailor commissioned to make a suit for the new mayor. he returned to his shop on a monday morning to find the suit completed except for one buttonhole.
