the World Of Beatrix Potter ™

1866-1943: The Artist and Her World

A definitive work on the art of Beatrix Potter, with over 450 images depicting her life and her work.

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Price £20.00

Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman

The essential Beatrix Potter biography - the world's most popular storyteller with over 200 photographs, drawings and illustrations.

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Price £16.99

Beatrix Potter: A Journal

This lavishly illustrated fictional journal follows Beatrix Potter's life as she struggles to achieve independence, artistic success and romantic love.

Each page offers an array of intricate paper-engineered effects, which make it the perfect way to immerse yourself in the intriguing and beautiful world of Beatrix Potter and her beloved characters.

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Price £17.99

Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit

This fascinating little book tells the story of Beatrix Potter, the writer and artist who created some of the world's best loved characters including Peter Rabbit, Tom Kitten and Mrs Tiggy-winkle.

It describes her life from her lonely childhood in a big London house, where her animals were her best friends, to her old age as a successful farmer in the Lake District. And it reveals how her pet, Peter, came to be the most famous rabbit in the world.

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Price £4.99

Beatrix Potter's Art

A beautiful paperback edition featuring early still-life studies, sketches of pets and places, microscopic paintings of insects and fungi, country views and interiors, fantasy pictures, as well as miniature vignettes characteristic of her book illustrations and the impressionistic landscapes of her later years.

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Price £25.00

Beatrix Potter: Artist and Illustrator

This is a fully-illustrated collection of about 200 paintings by Beatrix Potter, which accompanied a major exhibition of Beatrix Potter's work at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in autumn 2005.

The selection, introduction and notes are by Anne Hobbs, former curator of the Beatrix Potter collection at the V&A. This is an exciting and innovative presentation of the works of an enduringly popular English illustrator.

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Price £20.00

Beatrix Potter's Journal

An abridged edition of the secret journal Beatrix Potter wrote in code from the ages of 15 to 30 which reveals a remarkable picture of her life in late Victorian Britain.

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Price £20.00

Beatrix Potter's Lake District

This beautiful 'coffee table' book features stunning photographs from the National Trust's extensive photo library, and covers the area of the Lake District associated with Beatrix Potter.

Alongside the photographs are related Beatrix Potter watercolour landscape paintings and illustrations from her famous Tales, revealing the way the Lake District countryside inspired her.

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Price £25.00

Beatrix Potter's Letters

Discover the woman behind the name with this fascinating collection of letters which includes picture-letters written for children and correspondence with her publishers.

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Price £17.99

Beatrix Potter: The Story of the Creator of Peter Rabbit

This splendid children's introduction to her extraordinary life story is ideal for young fans who want an informative and easy to understand text and provides an excellent source of reference for school projects.

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Price £8.99

Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter

A compilation of the letters Beatrix Potter wrote to children, including the famous picture letters, with biographical information about the recipients.

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Price £16.99

The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian Genius

This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved stories: a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman; a pioneering scientific researcher; a powerful landowner who conserved acres of Lakeland countryside; a daughter who defied her parents with her first tragically short engagement and who, finally was given a second chance of love and happiness.

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Price £8.99

A Victorian Naturalist - Beatrix Potter's Drawings from the Armitt Collection

A collection of over 200 of Beatrix Potter's scientific illustrations of fossils, archaeological finds and fungi which she donated to the Armitt Trust.

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Price £35.00

A Tale of Peter Rabbit

When Beatrix Potter died in 1943 few knew the full story of her life. Margaret Lane's remarkable piece of literary detective work, originally published only three years after Beatrix's death, told her story for the first time.

Extensively revised in1985 to include new material that had come to light, it remains essential reading for anyone interested in the background to the author of the famous Peter Rabbit Tales.

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Price £6.99

That Naughty Rabbit: Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is one of the best-selling, and best-loved, children's books of all time, and the story of how it came to be published and what's happened to the book in the 100 years since publication is fascinating.

Judy Taylor, a leading authority on Potter, tells the story that begins with a small girl's devotion to her pet rabbit and ends with Beatrix Potter's bequest of extensive areas of England's Lake District.

Hardback

Price £12.99