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The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.  \r\n\r\nAt first publishers rejected Beatrix Potter’s manuscript of ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Mr. McGregor’s Garden’ so she decided to publish the story herself in an edition of 250 copies with black and white illustrations and a colour frontispiece. This proof of the frontispiece, featuring Mrs Rabbit bringing camomile tea to Peter, relates to the privately printed edition of the book. It includes ink notes written by Beatrix Potter. By the time the privately printed edition was published in December 1901 Frederick Warne had agreed to publish the story the following year as ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’, the version with colour illustrations that many of us know today.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Coloured proof of the frontispiece of 'Peter Rabbit' with Mrs Rabbit giving tea to Peter, who is in bed, under the covers. 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August 1901. Acquired by the V&A from Leslie Linder (1904-1973) in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, a collection of ca. 2150 watercolours, drawings, literary manuscripts, correspondence, books, photographs, and other memorabilia associated with Beatrix Potter and her family.   \r\n\r\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Print. Printer's proof of the coloured frontispiece of 'Peter Rabbit', designed by Beatrix Potter, printed by Hentschel-Colourtype, ca. Aug 1901. Linder Bequest cat. no. LB 916.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Joyce Irene Whalley, eds. <u>Beatrix Potter: the V & A collection : the Leslie Linder bequest of Beatrix Potter material : watercolours, drawings, manuscripts, books, photographs and memorabilia.</u> London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985.","id":"AUTH315806"},"details":"p.99; no.916","free":"Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Joyce Irene Whalley, eds. 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