 First edition cover | |
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
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| Illustrator | Beatrix Potter |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Publisher | Frederick Warne & Co. |
Publication date | October 1903 |
| Publication place | England, United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) KO |
| OCLC | 884366 |
| Preceded by | The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin |
| Followed by | The Tale of Benjamin Bunny |
| Text | The Tailor of Gloucester at Wikisource |
The Tailor of Gloucester is a Christmas children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, privately printed by the author in 1902, and published in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1903. The story is about a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished by the grateful mice he rescues from his cat and was based on a real world incident involving a tailor and his assistants. For years, Potter declared that of all her books it was her personal favourite.[1]