The Tale of Peter Rabbit: The Warne Archive Collection (Limited Edition)

First printing of the monumental 120th-anniversary archive limitation. Number 729 of 1,000 copies hand-numbered at the press. A massive, museum-grade production charting the evolutionary journey of Beatrix Potter's debut masterpiece from an informal picture letter to a global commercial marvel.Housed inside a giant mid-blue cloth presentation box elaborately blocked in silver and black with a classic motif. The collection is fully complete, encompassing:• Facsimile 1: The 1893 picture letter written to a sick child (8pp). • Facsimile 2: The 1901 scarce privately printed edition in Wibalin paper (88pp). • Facsimile 3: The 1902 handwritten layout mock-up/maquette in a Sirio folder. • Facsimile 4: The 1902 deluxe full-colour first commercial edition, beautifully bound in orange cloth with gold page edges. • The Commentary: An 80-page companion volume bound in metallic silver-blocked Sirio paper. • Bonus Ephemera: Five miniature Christmas letters, a high-fidelity Giclée print, and the letterpress limitation certificate.In pristine, As New / Mint condition. Only opened once briefly for inspection and cataloguing photography. The presentation case is entirely crisp, structurally immaculate, and free of shelf scuffing. All internal facsimile elements, booklets, prints, and loose ephemera are completely untouched, pristine, and unread. Crucially, this copy includes the original protective outer cardboard packaging from the Folio Society, ensuring it remains in flawless collector state.…