Record Added: 4/18/2016 Setting  England Topic Animal Characters Publisher Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd ISBN 0723210985 Year 1968 Age 9-12 Pages 64 Description Cream printed dustjacket
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester. He sat in the window of a little shop in Westgate Street, cross-legged on a table, from morning till dark.
When the tailor becomes sick and cannot finish the waistcoat for the Mayor, the mice finish it for him. This little story has charmed readers for over a century.
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Beatrix Potter self-published this story with one set of pictures and a lot more lines of text than her publisher would usually let her include. A year later the publisher, Frederick Warne, printed the "authorized" version. Neither version does justice to Beatrix's original art, some of which has been preserved and is visible online in various museum sites. But a century ago, the painting was considered a starting point for the lithographers and others involved in the printing process, and nobody expected to actually replicate the painting. This book includes the original text of the story.
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