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Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1904. Second American Edition, First Format with Green Cloth and Decorated Endpapers. Small Duodecimo. Tan paper dust jacket with black ink illustrations and lettering, green illustrated cloth over boards, white end papers with orange illustrations, thirty-one color illustrations. Altemus' Wee Books for Wee Folks. Good dust jacket, chipping to spine ends, top third of front panel torn away and now reattached with archival tape at verso, slight damp stain at top spine and over to top spine edge of front panel, very good overall, discoloration to cloth from dampstain at rear cover, very light foxing to edges, smudges to title page, pencil inscription from 1907 at verso of frontispiece.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother, who puts him to bed after dosing him with tea. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893. It was revised and privately printed by Potter in 1901 after several publishers' rejections, but it was printed in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1902. The book was a success, and multiple reprints were issued in the years immediately following its debut. It has been reprinted multiple times since then and is regarded as one of the most iconic children's books.