Beatrix Potter  Books & Media Lot:

The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881-1897

Transcribed from Her Code Writings by Leslie Linder

Published by Frederick Warne, 1979

Fifth Printing Hardcover, Dust Jacket

Cousin Beatie: A Memory of Beatrix Potter

By Ulla Hyde Parker

Published by Frederick Warne, 1981

First Edition Hardcover, Dust Jacket

Animal Characters: 1980 Postcard Calendar

Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

Facsimile of the Antique Original 

Published by Merrimack, 1979

The books and calendar are in Near Fine, Excellent vintage condition. The books and dust jackets are clean, covers attached, secure bindings, unmarked, no writing, no highlighting, no stains, no fading, no ripped pages, no edge chipping, no corner folds, no crease marks, no remainder marks, not ex-library. Very faint to indiscernible signs of wear from age, use, storage and handling.

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Helen Beatrix Potter  (28 July 1866  – 22 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator,  natural scientist  and  conservationist; she was best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as  The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

Born into an upper-middle-class household, Potter was educated by  governesses  and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the  Lake District, developing a love of landscape, flora and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Potter's study and watercolours of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of  mycology. In her thirties, Potter self-published the highly successful children's book  The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Following this, Potter began writing and illustrating children's books full-time.

Potter wrote thirty books, the best known being her  twenty-three children's tales. With the proceeds from the books and a legacy from an aunt, Potter bought  Hill Top Farm  in  Near Sawrey  in 1905; this is a village in the  Lake District  in the county of Cumbria. Over the following decades, she purchased additional farms to preserve the unique hill country landscape. In 1913, at the age of 47, she married William Heelis, a respected local solicitor from  Hawkshead. Potter was also a prize-winning breeder of  Herdwick sheep  and a prosperous farmer keenly interested in land preservation. She continued to write and illustrate, and to design spin-off merchandise based on her children's books for British publisher Warne until the duties of land management and her diminishing eyesight made it difficult to continue. Potter died of  pneumonia  and  heart disease  on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at the age of 77, leaving almost all her property to the  National Trust. She is credited with preserving much of the land that now constitutes the  Lake District National Park. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in songs, films, ballet, and animations, and her life is depicted in two films and a television series.

Publications:

The 23 Tales -

The Tale of Peter Rabbit  (privately printed, 250 copies, 1901)

The Tale of Peter Rabbit  (1902)

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin  (1903)

The Tailor of Gloucester  (1903)

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny  (1904)

The Tale of Two Bad Mice  (1904)

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle  (1905)

The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan  (1905)

The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher  (1906)

The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit  (1906)

The Story of Miss Moppet  (1906)

The Tale of Tom Kitten  (1907)

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck  (1908)

The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or, The Roly-Poly Pudding  (1908)

The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies  (1909)

The Tale of Ginger and Pickles  (1909)

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse  (1910)

The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes  (1911)

The Tale of Mr. Tod  (1912)

The Tale of Pigling Bland  (1913)

Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes  (1917)

The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse  (1918)

Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes  (1922)

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson  (1930)

Other Books -

Peter Rabbit's Painting Book  (1911)

Tom Kitten's Painting Book  (1917)

Jemima Puddle-Duck's Painting Book  (1925)

Peter Rabbit's Almanac for 1929  (1928)

The Fairy Caravan  (1929)

Sister Anne  (illustrated by Katharine Sturges) (1932)

Wag-by-Wall  (decorations by  J. J. Lankes) (1944)

The Tale of the Faithful Dove  (illus. by  Marie Angel) (1955, 1970)

The Sly Old Cat  (written 1906; first published 1971)

The Tale of Tuppenny  (illustrated by Marie Angel) (1973)

The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots  (2016) (Illustrated by  Quentin Blake.)

Red Riding Hood  (2019) (Illustrated by  Helen Oxenbury.)