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In October 1902.
Beatrix Potter's self-illustrated children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit (originally published privately a year earlier) appears in its first trade edition with Frederick Warne & Co in London. It sells 28,000 copies by the end of the year. Potter created both the text and the illustrations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Peter_Rabbit#The Tale of Peter Rabbit at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/14838#books #literature
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