A HISTORY OF THE WRITINGS OF BEATRIX POTTER: Including Unpublished Work by Leslie Linder New York: Frederick Warne Co. Inc., (1971). First edition, first printing. Enhanced with more than a hundred-fifty illustrations--many of which are beautiful color plates--and with photographs of Lake District scenes, houses, and people connected with Potter's books. An impressively rich source reference presenting Beatrix Potter's inspirations, writings, life, art, publications, friends, and career. Included are a bounty of letters, facsimile pages of manuscripts and sketches, recipes, descriptions of her pets and animal friends, notes and correspondence with her publishers, her newspaper article writings, facsimiles of several picture letters, an unfinished story that was to be a sequel to FAIRY CARAVAN, annotations about her writings, and a section explaining how to identify Potter's first editions. Fresh! Fine in imitation burgundy leather with gilt embossed illustration depicting a dragon sitting on a book with a bird perched on its tail to the front cover and with gilt embossed titles and decorative rules to the spine, upper page edges burgundy, burgundy-and-white headband; in a fine dust jacket with a faint wrinkle line of from the gloss laminate processing to the rear panel; original $20.00 price still intact to the front inner flap. A stunningly nice copy of an important children's reference. Thick octavo; 446 pages; appendices; index. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!