Beatrix potter antique books

Helen Beatrix Potter 28 July — 22 December was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientistand conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Beatrix potter antique books. 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.

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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.

Very Good, with some foxing and browning to covers,small bump with some creasing near spine, foxing to text block edge and offsetting to endsheets, else a rather nice and neat copy. Her legacy lives on through her books, which continue to sell throughout the world in many languages; her stories have been retold in song, film, ballet, and animation, and her life depicted in a feature film and television film, 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.

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.

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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Signed by Author. The colour plates are printed on one side of the quality paper; the other side is blank. The Tale of Mr. Childrens sellers , items. The Tale of Peter Rabbit was born. Fiction sellers , items. We buy Beatrix Potter First Editions. The drawings comprise a rare sequence of illustrations, together with the text in the artist's hand, for this classic nursery rhyme. This First Trade Edition of copies was issue in both brown and gray paper boards with no priority. Business sellers 58, items. Borders devastated by the night or year". In most cases first editions note the publisher as "F. Jane Austen Rare books by Jane Austen, including first editions and copies in fine bindings.

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On her death in , Potter left almost all her property to the National Trust. The first of Potter's works to be published in a large format and the details of her engaging watercolours are even more enjoyable on this scale. The tale is about a travelling circus which is invisible to humans. Original maroon boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white on spine. Later issues have later endpapers. With 10 colour plates including a frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations by the author. The book is in great shape and is bound in the publisher's cloth with minor wear to the edges. Housed in a brown quarter morocco solander box. More books. Remove This Item Compare. Potter's comforting tale of a young girl who finds both her pocket handkerchief and a friend in the maternal hedgehog, Mrs. Customer Email. The trade binding was in red or dark green paper-covered boards, without priority.