From the Collection of Judy Taylor, MBE

POTTER, BEATRIX

The Tailor of Gloucester. [Privately Printed for the Author], December 1902

16mo, FIRST PRIVATELY PRINTED EDITION [LIMITED TO 500 COPIES], PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ("For Lady Warren | with kind regards from | "Beatrix Potter" | Christmas 1919") on front free endpaper, coloured frontispiece and 15 illustrations by Beatrix Potter, original pictorial pink boards, collector’s chemise and slipcase, some loose plates, some browning and spotting, binding worn with some minor loss

[with, loosely inserted:] Beatrix Potter, autograph letter signed, to Lady Warren, PRESENTING THIS COPY OF THE BOOK and noting that The Tailor of Gloucester "has always been my own favourite", revealing that "some cousins… told me the story of the tailor; and I added the mice and the old fashioned coats" and stating "The Tailor never caught on like the others, but he is far the best…", 3 pages, 8vo, embossed stationery of Sawrey, Ambleside, 23 December 1919, some spotting and tears at creases; [also with:] Frances M. Martin, lette🌸r to Lady Warren, 4 pages, December 1🌳919 

AN INSCRIBED COPY OF THE VOLUME ACCOMPANIED BY A LETTER IN WHICH BEATRIX POTꦑTER GIVES HER OPINION OF THE BOOK. The recipient of this copy was Mary Isabel Warren, a daughter of Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bt., who married Herbert Warren (KCVO, 1914) in 1886.

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