NMLP P-036462 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter · Frederick Warne & Co. (first commercial trade) · 1902

1902), now fully coloured: undated, imprint 'Frederick Warne & Co.' with NO 'Ltd.' (the firm became a limited company on 26 May 1919, so any 'Ltd.' copy is later); the first three printings are in brown or grey paper boards (green boards were introduced only after the first printing), with leaf/floral-pattern endpapers on a pale-grey ground; page 51 reads 'wept big tears' in the first three printings, altered to 'shed big tears' in the fourth printing of April 1903; colour frontispiece present; the capital 'O's on spine and cover carry a dot in the centre

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036462 for "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036462, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).