The Art of Beatrix Potter
PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.
BINDING
Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and design.
BOOK CONDITION
Boards have wear and some fading at edges. Hinges slightly weak but binding secure. A little foxing / browning to endpapers and block edges. Printed pages and illustrations are clear with little marking. Colours bright.
DUST JACKET
Tearing and some pieces missing at top edge. Generally rather worn and scuffed, spine faded. Protected with removable book wrap.
EDITION
Second edition 1956.
DESCRIPTION
Illustrated throughout with very many coloured and black and white plates of finished works and sketches, original text, notes, juvenilia and letters. A collection of photographs of Hill top and Sawrey at the end of the book. Appendix of published works. Small inscription to previous owner on flyleaf. 336 pp. Octavo.
SYNOPSIS
Beginning with an Appreciation by Anne Carroll Moore, a lavishly illustrated volume dedicated to the most charming of children's illustrators and authors.