The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Book
December 1901 (published)
December 1901 (published)
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84 unnumbered pages, with 41 monochrome line illustrations and 1 colour frontispiece. Pale grey paper boards with flat spine. Upper cover with title, author and line illustration. With page numbers added in pencil and rewritings and alternations of parts of the text in pencil and ink. Scale of reduction of illustrations annotated in pencil on bottom right corner of each illustration. Three illustrations have been hand-coloured in watercolour.
Object details
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| Title | The Tale of Peter Rabbit (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Three colour process and line block, typeset, watercolour, pen and pencil |
| Brief description | Book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, privately printed, first edition, December 1901. Used by Beatrix Potter as a working copy when planning Warne's edition. Library's copy E. Linder Bequest cat. no. LB 1734. NAL accession no. BP.585. (Proof of frontispiece was inserted but now mounted elsewhere). |
| Physical description | 84 unnumbered pages, with 41 monochrome line illustrations and 1 colour frontispiece. Pale grey paper boards with flat spine. Upper cover with title, author and line illustration. With page numbers added in pencil and rewritings and alternations of parts of the text in pencil and ink. Scale of reduction of illustrations annotated in pencil on bottom right corner of each illustration. Three illustrations have been hand-coloured in watercolour. |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
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| Credit line | Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number] |
| Object history | Used as a working copy when planning the Warne edition of 1902. 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. |
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| 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.
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 | BP.585 |
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| Record created | December 3, 2020 |
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