Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit Collection (23 volumes)

A complete collection of Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit books, comprising all 23 tales. All are from the edition produced by Frederick Warne in the late 1980s (some first thus, some second or third impressions) with remastered illustrations.*  All uniformly bound in green paper-covered boards with central illustration on upper panel and cream lettering front and spine.  Illustrated endpapers.  Colour plate illustrations and line drawings in text.  Some volumes are gently pushed at spine ends or gently rounded on corners else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  All in their original glossy dust wrappers, a little shelf worn and some mildly bumped at edges, with the occasional mild mark or indentation.  The dust wrapper on The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse has a crease on the inner front flap; that on The Story of Miss Moppet has a little crumpling.  A really lovely set, making a wonderful gift for a youngster starting to read. 

*Frederick Warne, the publishers, said this of the new edition: “When Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit, she had little idea who popular this story and the 22 which followed it would immediately become.  Each of the 23 Tales has been reprinted over 100 times, and in the eighty or so years since their initial publication, much of the delicate brushwork and detailed disappeared from the pictures.  To remedy this, Frederick Warne has located Beatrix Potter’s original artwork, and photographed it to produce these wonderful new editions of her stories.  Thanks to modern printing techniques her illustrations appear just as freshly as when there were first printed, and confirm Beatrix Potter’s place as the most celebrated children’s artist of the century”.