Beatrix potter antique books

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Helen Beatrix Potter 28 July — 22 December was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist , and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter had an isolated childhood, separate from other children, and educated by governesses. However, her numerous pets and holidays in the Lake District, culminated in a love of landscape, flora and fauna. These became the subjects of her paintings, and literary works. Although prevented from higher education by society's attitudes to women at the time, Potter's study and watercolors of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology. She also had a successful career in farming and breeding, based in Hill Top Farm in a village in the Lake District.

Beatrix potter antique books

Seller Rating:. Contact seller. First Edition. Used - Hardcover. From United Kingdom to U. First edition. Original folded card covers illustrated in colour by Potter, enclosing seven card leaves tied at the spine with the original silk tasselled tie. All edges gilt. A near fine copy with light wear to the spine fold, though much less than usual, and a faint crease to the upper corner. An exceptionally bright and crisp copy and very rare indeed in such a state. Housed in a full morocco clamshell box. Illustrated internally with six exquisite chromolithographs by Potter, one of which is duplicated on the upper cover. The first work to contain illustrations by Beatrix Potter, preceding The Tale of Peter Rabbit by some eleven years, and of legendary scarcity. In the summer of the twenty four year old Beatrix Potter had bought herself a pet rabbit. His existence was not observed by the nursery authorities for a week.

Unable to find a publisher in the beginning, Potter published two rounds of private editions for friends and family at her own expense, a total of only copies, beatrix potter antique books, before Warne took on the project - after having earlier rejected it. Arthur Rackham.

JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. First editions, autographed and signed books from feminism to the occult, naval history to crime. Rare books by Beatrix Potter, including first editions of the Peter Rabbit books, signed and finely bound copies, and original artwork. Her works provide significant scope for a collector: from privately printed volumes to commercial trade editions, from inscribed copies to translations, from greetings cards to merchandise, from regular issues to deluxe bindings and, also, examples of her original artwork. We are always buying and considering fresh material, and we can draw upon our extensive network to source rare books and manuscripts.

What makes her books so unique? Potter paid great attention to the words and descriptions of her animal characters. Wight, 26th June Throughout her life Beatrix Potter was a letter-writer and keeper of a journal. In her letters however, her sense of humour comes across. Her letters and tales often contained sketches of the animals and wild life of her beloved Lake District. Her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, was initially written as a letter to the poorly son of her former governess Annie Moore.

Beatrix potter antique books

JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. First editions, autographed and signed books from feminism to the occult, naval history to crime. Rare books by Beatrix Potter, including first editions of the Peter Rabbit books, signed and finely bound copies, and original artwork. Her works provide significant scope for a collector: from privately printed volumes to commercial trade editions, from inscribed copies to translations, from greetings cards to merchandise, from regular issues to deluxe bindings and, also, examples of her original artwork. We are always buying and considering fresh material, and we can draw upon our extensive network to source rare books and manuscripts. Showing items 1 - 20 of London : London and New York :

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Performing Arts. Item added to your basket View basket. Exceptionally clean and crisp. The Tale of Peter Rabbit was born. In the summer of the twenty four year old Beatrix Potter had bought herself a pet rabbit. Beatrix Potter's works have been translated into many languages and remain as popular today as a century ago. I know from experience that notes like these are not written in five minutes. Publisher's blue paper-covered boards with white titles to spine and upper board, and a small circular chromolithographic illustration The Tale of Johnny Town-mouse. With a chromolithographic plate by the author facing every page of text. View All. Color pictorial endpapers Quinby Plate X.

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Beatrix Potter. Potter's comforting tale of a young girl who finds both her pocket handkerchief and a friend in the maternal hedgehog, Mrs. Roald Dahl. Original brown boards, titles to front cover and spine in white, pictorial label to front cover. History sellers , items. More images. The Tale of Mrs. Natural History sellers 33, items. Art sellers , items. Her works provide significant scope for a collector: from privately printed volumes to commercial trade editions, from inscribed copies to translations, from greetings cards to merchandise, from regular issues to deluxe bindings and, also, examples of her original artwork. Two leaves in Peter Rabbit have edge-tears, frontis in Benjamin Bunny is partially detached along the bottom joint. Refine search results Skip to search results Search within these results: Go. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates included in pagination. Winston Churchill.