(New York: Frederick Warne & Company, Inc., ca. 1931).

POTTER'S FAVORITE OF HER TWENTY-THREE TALES. It was the second work she finished. She printed it privately in 1901. It would be the third published by Frederick Warne coming right on heals of Squirrel Nutkin in 1903. The tale was based on a real world incident involving John Pritchard, a Gloucester tailor commissioned to make a suit for the new mayor. He returned to his shop on a Monday morning to find the suit completed except for one buttonhole. Item #32195

Illustrated with 27 colourplates and pictorially decorated endleaves, by the author. 12mo, original blue-green pictorially decorated paper covered boards. [59] pp. A good copy, well preserved with tight and sound hinges, clean internally, the covers with some light edgewear.