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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.

When The Tailor of Gloucester sends his cat to buy some food and a twist of silk for a waistcoat, he discovers a secret-the cat has imprisoned mice under some teacups. After the tailor releases the mice, the cat hides the twist of silk in anger. But how can the tailor finish the waistcoat now? The third of Beatrix Potter's 22 charmingly illustrated tales of animals in amusing situations, The Tailor of Gloucester was based on a true story, and was said to be Potter's personal favorite.

Comes with the original illustrations by Beatrix Potter herself."The Tailor of Gloucester was first published in 1903 and tells the story of a poor tailor trying to survive in his freezing workshop over a hard winter. He has a terribly important commission to complete for the Mayor of Gloucester's wedding on Christmas Day but is ill and tired, and before long is running out of food and thread, as well as time! How will he possibly complete the beautiful coat and embroidered waistcoat? Luckily, there lives in the dresser, some very kind and very resourceful mice who set about helping the poor tailor with his work. Not only are they exceedingly helpful, but they are also, luckily, far far too clever for the tailor's sly cat, Simpkin."[source: Goodreads.com]

The Tailor of Gloucester was first published in 1903 and tells the story of a poor tailor trying to survive in his freezing workshop over a hard winter. He has a terribly important commission to complete for the Mayor of Gloucester's wedding on Christmas Day but is ill and tired, and before long is running out of food and thread, as well as time! How will he possibly complete the beautiful coat and embroidered waistcoat? Luckily, there lives in the dresser, some very kind and very resourceful mice who set about helping the poor tailor with his work. Not only are they exceedingly helpful.

The Tailor of Gloucester is a 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. Wikipedia.

A tailor in Gloucester sends his cat Simpkin to buy food and a twist of cherry-coloured silk to complete a waistcoat commissioned by the mayor for his wedding on Christmas morning. Whilst Simpkin is gone, the tailor finds mice the cat has imprisoned under teacups. The mice are released and scamper away. When Simpkin returns and finds his mice gone, he hides the twist in anger. The tailor falls ill and is unable to complete the waistcoat, but, upon returning to his shop, he is surprised to find the waistcoat finished. The work has been done by the grateful mice. However, one buttonhole remains unfinished because there was "no more twist!" Simpkin gives the tailor the twist to complete the work and the success of the waistcoat makes the tailor's fortune.

A tailor in Gloucester sends his cat Simpkin to buy food and a twist of cherry-coloured silk to complete a waistcoat commissioned by the mayor for his wedding on Christmas morning. Whilst Simpkin is gone, the tailor finds mice the cat has imprisoned under teacups. The mice are released and scamper away. When Simpkin returns and finds his mice gone, he hides the twist in anger.The tailor falls ill and is unable to complete the waistcoat, but, upon returning to his shop, he is surprised to find the waistcoat finished. The work has been done by the grateful mice. However, one buttonhole remains unfinished because there was "no more twist!" Simpkin gives the tailor the twist to complete the work and the success of the waistcoat makes the tailor's fortune.

• All original illustrations remastered and digitally enhanced.The mayor of Gloucester commissioned a coat for his wedding to a very poor tailor. After he cut all the silk and satin for the mayor's coat, the tailor closed the door of his little shop in Westgate Street and went home. Everything was ready to sew together in the morning, all measured and sufficient, except that there was wanting just one single skein of cherry-coloured twisted silk... Beatrix Potter's third book is set on Christmas Eve, when the animals can talk, the streets are covered with snow and people sit by the fire at home, and the season's spirit is reflected in the generous feelings behind the plot and the images."The Tailor of Gloucester" was always Beatrix Potter favourite among her own books. It was published for the first time in 1902 in a private printing and dedicated to Freda Moore, sister of Noel, to whom Beatrix Potter dedicated "The Tale of Peter Rabbit". By this time "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", Beatrix Potter's first book, had already become a huge success and its publisher, Frederick Moore, offered Beatrix a contract for a bound edition of "The Tailor of Gloucester". The first trade edition was published in October 1903, only a month or two after "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin".The drawings Beatrix Potter made for "The Tailor of Gloucester" are considered among her most beautiful. To draw the coat of the mayor, Beatrix Potter visited many times the Victoria & Albert Museum, then a recent institution. The eighteenth century coat and waistcoat that inspired her are still kept in the museum. The place where the tailor's shop stood, in College Court, near Westgate Street, one of the main streets of the city, in the oldest part of Gloucester, is now a popular Beatrix Potter private shop and museum run by volunteers, one of Gloucester most visited. The interior and the façade of the house were remodeled according to Beatrix Potter's original illustrations.Among several curious stories regarding this book, one of the most touching is told by Linda Lear in her biography of Beatrix Potter. There she quotes a review of "The Tailor of Gloucester" published in "The Tailor & Cutter", a London trade journal: "We think it is by far the prettiest story connected with tailoring we have ever read, and as it is full of that spirit of peace on earth, goodwill to men, we are not ashamed to confess that it brought the moisture to our eyes, as well as the smile to our face. It is got up in choicest style and illustrated by twenty-seven of the prettiest pictures it is possible to imagine."