NMLP P-038957 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Tailor of Gloucester

Beatrix Potter · Privately printed for the author by Strangeways & Sons (London) · 1902

Text point: the private printing carries the long passage (roughly eight to nine pages) of Simpkin's Christmas Eve wanderings through Gloucester and the bulk of Potter's rhymes and verses, all cut by the publisher from the trade edition, and three of its illustrations were dropped from the trade edition

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038957 for "The Tailor of Gloucester" by Beatrix Potter (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038957, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).