BEATRIX POTTER: THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT, London and New York, Federick Warne [1902], 1st trade edition, leaf pattern end papers, coloured frontis and 30 plates as called for, 'Wept big tears' page 51, pencil inscription recto of frontis, inner joint, joint verso of half title and joint between pages 96 and 97 reinforced with old stamp selvedge, rear joint split and text block weak in some areas, 16mo, original grey boards, pictorial paper label, split at spine and small part loss at head and foot, requires sympathetic re-casing