The Tailor of Gloucester
Book
1903 (published)
1903 (published)
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Printed book, 85 pages. Illustrated throughout with three-colour-process illustrations. Case bindings of maroon paper over boards. Upper covers with title, author and publisher stamped in white; triangular paper onlay in blind-stamped frame in centre repeats illustration on frontispiece. Title stamped in white on spines. With three-colour-process printed pictorial endpapers. Transparent glassine paper dust jacket.
Object details
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| Title | The Tailor of Gloucester (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Three-colour relief halftone and letterpress in paper covered, and blocked case binding, glassine jacket. |
| Brief description | Book, The Tailor of Gloucester, by Beatrix Potter. Publisher in London by Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. First Warne edition. Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.1569. NAL accession no. BP.50. Library's copy B. |
| Physical description | Printed book, 85 pages. Illustrated throughout with three-colour-process illustrations. Case bindings of maroon paper over boards. Upper covers with title, author and publisher stamped in white; triangular paper onlay in blind-stamped frame in centre repeats illustration on frontispiece. Title stamped in white on spines. With three-colour-process printed pictorial endpapers. Transparent glassine paper dust jacket. |
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| Credit line | Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number] |
| Object history | Library's copy B. Previously Beatrix Potter's own copy. First edition (20,000 copies printed in October 1903) with a single-page endpaper design occurring four times. [See Linder, Leslie. A history of the writings of Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne, 1971, 1987), p.423]. 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 | BP.50 |
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| Record created | February 1, 2021 |
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