35 parts, 12mo. 34 line-block plates printed in dark brown. Original publisher’s green printed wrappers, each print laid in individual limp gray printed wrappers; original blue-gray cloth folding case, green painted lettering-piece gilt to spine, gray and brown stamped illustration to front cover (some very minor rubbing). Provenance: acquired from Justin G. Schiller, Ltd. (correspondence laid in).

 

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, No. 111 of 250 copies, SIGNED BY SENDAK AND IAIN BAIN. Sendak introduced the present work, which contains “restrikes of all the surviving linecut zinc plates (34 of a total 42) that were used for printing the original 1901 private edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit” (Introduction, p. 5). Iain Bain was a Scottish historian of printing and served as the president of both the Thomas Bewick Society, and of the Printing Historical Society.