Book, by Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. London, Frederick Warne & Co., 1903. Fourth printing. Printed by Edmund Evans. Library's copy B. Linder Bequest cat. no. LB 1631. NAL accession no. BP.14.

Printed book, 97 pages. Illustrated throughout with three-colour-process illustrations. Case binding of dark green paper over boards. Upper cover with title, author and publisher blocked in white and colour paper onlay set in blind-stamped frame in the centre. Title blocked in white on spine. With pale-grey leaf-patterned endpapers.

Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number]

Acquired by the V&A from Leslie Linder (1904-1973) in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, a collection of ca. 2150 watercolours, drawings, literary manuscripts, correspondence, books, photographs, and other memorabilia associated with Beatrix Potter and her family.

Copy B (LB 1631) with bookseller's ticket on inside upper cover: "Sold by / Wm. Whiteley Ltd / Stationers, &c. / Westbourne Grove". With inscription in pencil on half title-page: "4th edition / p.51". With insert: slip of newspaper inscribed in pencil: "4th edition / shed instead of / wept see p.51". Previously Beatrix Potter's own copy. Acquired by the V&A from Leslie Linder (1904-1973) in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, a collection of ca. 2150 watercolours, drawings, literary manuscripts, correspondence, books, photographs, and other memorabilia associated with Beatrix Potter and her family.

BP.14