The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Book
1902 (printed and published), 1901 (printed)
1902 (printed and published), 1901 (printed)
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Printed book, 84 unnumbered pages. 41 monochrome line block illustrations throughout the text made from zinc blocks and three-colour-process printed frontispiece. With bookplate of Rupert Potter on inside upper cover and formerly the author's own copy, with pencil inscription by Beatrix Potter: "2nd printing / 200". Also with "2" written on recto upper flyleaf. Case binding of pale green paper over boards with rounded spine. Upper cover with title, author, line illustration and "Copyright" blocked in black.
Object details
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| Title | The Tale of Peter Rabbit (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Case bound printed book of pale green paper over boards. Line block and halftone illustrations and letterpress text |
| Brief description | Book, The tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter, second printing of privately printed edition printed in an edition of 200 copies. Annotated by the author. Linder Bequest cat. no. LB 1624. NAL accession no. BP.7. Library's copy F. |
| Physical description | Printed book, 84 unnumbered pages. 41 monochrome line block illustrations throughout the text made from zinc blocks and three-colour-process printed frontispiece. With bookplate of Rupert Potter on inside upper cover and formerly the author's own copy, with pencil inscription by Beatrix Potter: "2nd printing / 200". Also with "2" written on recto upper flyleaf. Case binding of pale green paper over boards with rounded spine. Upper cover with title, author, line illustration and "Copyright" blocked in black. |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Gallery label | The line block process faithfully reproduces simple pen and ink outlines. Beatrix Potter had her drawings made into line blocks for her privately published edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. As she funded the project herself, she left most images in black and white, partly to save money and partly to imitate the ones she ‘scribbled’ in the first, letter version of her story. She thought an entire book of ‘rabbit-brown and green’ sounded too dull to have in colour.(August 2019) |
| Object history | With bookplate of Rupert Potter on inside upper cover and formerly the author's own copy, with pencil inscription by Beatrix Potter: "2nd printing / 200". Also with "2" written on recto upper flyleaf. 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. |
| 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. |
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| Library number | 38041003058997 |
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| Record created | May 1, 2019 |
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