A wonderful association copy, with a gift inscription to Margaret Lane, Potter's first biographer, from Leslie Linder, who first decoded Potter's secret writing, written in both English and Potter's secret code. True first edition, one of only 500 privately printed copies, of Potter's second book, which she called "my own favorite amongst my little books," with frontispiece and 15 illustrations in color, three of which do not appear in the first trade edition of October, 1903. London: Privately printed for the author, December, 1902. "MY OWN FAVORITE AMONGST MY LITTLE BOOKS": TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER, ONE OF ONLY 500 PRIVATELY PRINTED COPIES, WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION COPY
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