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    The Tailor of Gloucester
    The Tailor of Gloucester
    The Tailor of Gloucester
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    The Tailor of Gloucester

    By Beatrix Potter

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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. All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippeted, piecing out his satin and pompadour, and lutestring; stuffs had strange names, and were very expensive in the days of the Tailor of Gloucester.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSovereign
    Release dateMay 15, 2014
    ISBN9781910343203
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    Beatrix Potter

    Helen Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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      The Tailor of Gloucester - Beatrix Potter

      Beatrix Potter

      The Tailor of Gloucester

      LONDON ∙ NEW YORK ∙ TORONTO ∙ SAO PAULO ∙ MOSCOW

      PARIS ∙ MADRID ∙ BERLIN ∙ ROME ∙ MEXICO CITY ∙ MUMBAI ∙ SEOUL ∙ DOHA

      TOKYO ∙ SYDNEY ∙ CAPE TOWN ∙ AUCKLAND ∙ BEIJING

      New Edition, Children’s Classics

      Published by Sovereign Classic

      sales@sovereignclassic.net

      www.sovereignclassic.net

      This Edition

      First published in 2014

      Copyright © 2014 Sovereign

      Design and Artwork © 2014 www.urban-pic.co.uk

      Images and Illustrations © 2014 Stocklibrary.org

      All Rights Reserved.

      ISBN: 9781910343203 (ebk)

      THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER

      "I’LL BE AT CHARGES FOR

      A LOOKING-GLASS, AND ENTERTAIN

      A SCORE OR TWO OF TAILORS"

      Richard III.

      MY DEAR FREDA,

      Because you

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