There are seven further plates in the Warne edition, the drawings for which are not at the Tate Gallery. In addition the ninth illustration was used only in the 1902 edition. Only two of these were used in the 1902 edition and these appear on pages 40 and 43 of the present (1958) edition’ (letter of 28 January 1959). Billington, Managing Director of Frederick Warne & Co., stated: ‘Regarding the 22 original illustrations held in your Gallery, these are the same drawings from which we originally made the blocks in our 1903 first edition. This is a first edition The Tailor of Gloucester. The book was first privately printed, in a limited edition of 400 copies, in 1902 Frederick Warne & Co. First Edition Book: The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter, December of 1902 Thank you for looking. The fabrics in the watercolours are said to have been taken from fabrics in the V. The illustrations for The Tailor of Gloucester, her second and favourite book, were drawn in Gloucester and the country round about, the story being based on an actual Gloucestershire story that she heard while staying with a cousin near Stroud. Lit: Margaret Lane, The Tale of Beatrix Potter, 1946, pp.63–4. Presented by the artist's executor, Captain K.W.G. Pen and watercolour, each 4 3/8×3 5/8 (11×9) Nos.16 and 17 are horizontal. A01090 TWENTY TWO ILLUSTRATIONS FOR ‘THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER’ c.
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