NMLP P-038960 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
The Tailor of Gloucester
Beatrix Potter · Privately printed for the author by Strangeways & Sons (London) · 1902
The trap for this title is facsimiles and later Warne printings rather than a book club. Warne's 1968 'The Tailor of Gloucester: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript and Illustrations' (limited to 1,500 copies, with an introduction by Leslie Linder and Potter's twelve original watercolour sketches) reproduces the manuscript and early artwork and is regularly mistaken for — or catalogued as — the 1902 private printing; it is neither, and it is not a facsimile of the printed 1902 book. Within the trade edition, the December 1903 second printing is told by the double-page endpaper occurring twice, and twentieth-century Warne reprints in the standard small format are common. No book-club edition is documented in the sources consulted.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038960 for "The Tailor of Gloucester" by Beatrix Potter (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038960, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).