The Tailor of Gloucester
Book
1902 (published), 1903 (made)
1902 (published), 1903 (made)
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Printed book, [64] pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates. Privately printed edition of the book, used by Beatrix Potter. Contains preliminary ideas for endpaper designs at back and front of book: (front left endpaper) design in watercolour over pencil with characters in rectangular frames; (front right endpaper) design in watercolour over pencil with characters in round frames; (back left endpaper) pen and ink over pencil design of Peter Rabbit in circular frame; (back right endpaper) pen and ink over pencil design of Squirrel Nutkin in circular frame.
Object details
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| Title | The Tailor of Gloucester (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Case bound printed book, ink, three colour printing process, and watercolour, pen and ink and pencil on paper. |
| Brief description | Book, The Tailor of Gloucester, Beatrix Potter, privately published edition printed by Strangeways and Sons, London, December 1902. Used as a working copy for the later Frederick Warne edition, and includes watercolour endpaper designs. On NAL catalogue as copy L. Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.1733. NAL accession no. BP.593. |
| Physical description | Printed book, [64] pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates. Privately printed edition of the book, used by Beatrix Potter. Contains preliminary ideas for endpaper designs at back and front of book: (front left endpaper) design in watercolour over pencil with characters in rectangular frames; (front right endpaper) design in watercolour over pencil with characters in round frames; (back left endpaper) pen and ink over pencil design of Peter Rabbit in circular frame; (back right endpaper) pen and ink over pencil design of Squirrel Nutkin in circular frame. |
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| Production type | Unique |
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| Credit line | Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number] |
| Object history | 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. |
| Historical context | Used as a working copy for a later edition |
| Production | Privately published copy but embellished with additional designs for a later edition |
| Bibliographic reference | Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Joyce Irene Whalley, eds. Beatrix Potter: the V & A collection : the Leslie Linder bequest of Beatrix Potter material : watercolours, drawings, manuscripts, books, photographs and memorabilia. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985.
p.187; no.1733
Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Joyce Irene Whalley, eds. Beatrix Potter: the V & A collection: the Leslie Linder bequest of Beatrix Potter material: watercolours, drawings, manuscripts, books, photographs and memorabilia. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985. p.187; no.1733 |
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| Library number | BP.593 |
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| Record created | October 4, 2018 |
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