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Libros antiguos y modernos

Potter

THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER

Frederick Warne & Company, Inc., 1931

58,50 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, Estados Unidos)

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Año de publicación
1931
Lugar de impresión
New York
Autor
Potter
Editores
Frederick Warne & Company, Inc.
Idiomas
Inlgés

Descripción

Illustrated with 27 colourplates and pictorially decorated endleaves, by the author. 12mo, original blue-green pictorially decorated paper covered boards. [59] pp. A good copy, well preserved with tight and sound hinges, clean internally, the covers with some light edgewear.

Edizione: potter's favorite of her twenty-three tales. it was the second work she finished. she printed it privately in 1901. it would be the third published by frederick warne coming right on heals of squirrel nutkin in 1903. the tale was based on a real world incident involving john pritchard, a gloucester tailor commissioned to make a suit for the new mayor. he returned to his shop on a monday morning to find the suit completed except for one buttonhole.