Beatrix Potter The Tailor of Gloucester, Frederick Warne and Co Ltd, 1930s

Buff coloured boards with grey-green lettering to the front board and spine; full colour pictorial paste-on set within a blind stamped frame on front board. First published by Frederick Warne and Co in October 1903. With Johnny Town-mouse end papers and no published date.

Slight bumping to one corner. Otherwise, the condition is very good. No dust cover.

The tale was based on a real world incident involving John Prichard (1877–1934),[4] 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. A note attached read, "No more twist". His assistants had finished the coat in the night, but Prichard encouraged a fiction that fairies had done the work and the incident became a local legend.