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The Tale of Peter Rabbit:  1902 - 2002 - Gold Edition  - Limited Edition
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit: 1902 - 2002 - Gold Edition - Limited Edition Hardcover - 2002

by Potter, Beatrix (Helen Beatrix Potter) (1866 - 1943)

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London: Frederick Warne & Co., 2002. -----012724 - The scan you see is the book you get. Glossy pictorial hard cover (roughly) 5 3/4" by 4 1/2" (inches) Limited Edition, illustrated endpapers, 70 pages illustrated in colour by Beatrix Potter, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with faint rub mark on back cover, cover now in Mylar. "The colours & detail of the watercolours are here reproduced more accurately than ever before. Most notably this edition restores six extra illustrations. Four of these were sacrificed in 1903 to make space for illustratted endpapers. The other two have never been used before." Check out the scans. . 1st 2002 Limited Edition . Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine. Illus. by Beatrix Potter. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.
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About this book

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. The story follows Peter Rabbit, a mischievous and disobedient young rabbit, as he ventures into the garden of farmer Mr. McGregor. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former governess, in 1893. It was revised and privately printed by Potter in 1901 after several publishers' rejections but was printed in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1902. 

First Edition Identification

Potter's book was initially rejected by publishers, who were looking for color illustrations. Resisting that idea, Potter paid for 250 copies to be printed at her own expense, which she distributed to family and friends in 1901 and shortly needed to print another 200 copies. 

Frederick Warne & Co reached out to the author (although they were one of the initial rejectors) asking if she would cut some illustrations and add colors - and eventually, a contract was agreed upon. The first 8,000 copies of the trade edition sold out before printing, and by the end of 1902 28,000 copies were in print; a 
year after the first commercial publication there were 56,470 copies in print.

Of the first printing, first edition run there were 2,000 deluxe editions bound in either green or yellow cloth. The rest were bound in brown board.  

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