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First published trade edition with the frontispiece as a facsimile and re-backed in black calf on the spine. The book is in very good condition with some wear and creasing to boards and previous owner's name to endpaper. The pages are clean with restoration to page 9/10 with facsimile replacement of the last three lines on page 9. The boards of the book are in the original publisher's gray paper. This First Trade Edition of 8000 copies was issue in both brown and gray paper boards with no priority. A lovely copy with the First Issue point of "wept big tears" on page 51.

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.