first edition gilt-stamped brown cloth, slipcased
1977 · Toronto
by POTTER (Beatrix)
POTTER (Beatrix)
Dear Ivy, Dear June; Letters from Beatrix Potter
Toronto: Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H Smith Collections, 1977.
Illustrated, including many facsimile sketches taken from Helen Beatrix Potter's original picture-letters, here transcribed.
8vo., x 166 pp.; brown cloth with gilt title on spine and pictorial design gilt-stamped on upper cover, orange pictorial board slip-case. As New.
First and only edition of these fifty-four letters written from 1924 to 1943 to Ivy Hunt Steel and her daughter Jane. The elder recipient was born in London and emigrated ti Canada in 1920.
With an introduction and biographical end-piece "Beatrix Potter 1866-1943" by Margaret Crawford Maloney and a checklist of the Beatrix Potter holdings at the Osborne Collection (compiled by Dana Tenny. Fine Condition. (Inventory #: ABB033)
Dear Ivy, Dear June; Letters from Beatrix Potter
Toronto: Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H Smith Collections, 1977.
Illustrated, including many facsimile sketches taken from Helen Beatrix Potter's original picture-letters, here transcribed.
8vo., x 166 pp.; brown cloth with gilt title on spine and pictorial design gilt-stamped on upper cover, orange pictorial board slip-case. As New.
First and only edition of these fifty-four letters written from 1924 to 1943 to Ivy Hunt Steel and her daughter Jane. The elder recipient was born in London and emigrated ti Canada in 1920.
With an introduction and biographical end-piece "Beatrix Potter 1866-1943" by Margaret Crawford Maloney and a checklist of the Beatrix Potter holdings at the Osborne Collection (compiled by Dana Tenny. Fine Condition. (Inventory #: ABB033)