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The Beatrix Potters Nursery Rhyme Vintage Children's Book Favourite Poems Songs 1980's

The Beatrix Potters Nursery Rhyme Vintage Children's Book Favourite Poems Songs 1980's

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The Beatrix Potter's Nursery Rhymes Book. Adorable Vintage Children's poetry book

The Beatrix Potter's Nursery Rhymes Book. Adorable Vintage Children's book. This delightful vintage Beatrix Potter book is stuffed with favourite traditional poems and songs all beautifully illustrated by Beatrix Potter herself. Published in 1987 the book pulls together all the wonderfully illustrated nursery rhymes, songs and poems that feature in Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit Books. The book comes to you in clean fresh condition as shown in our photos. 

Beatrix loved traditional children's stories and poetry, so although this vintage Beatrix Potter book was compiled many years after she wrote the Original Peter Rabbit books and revived from her original manuscripts - I am sure she would have approved of the idea!

The resulting book is a Nursery Classic your own personal toolkit of Nursery Rhymes all delectably illustrated to entertain and delight your child at bedtime. Especially if they love all the lovely old Beatrix Potter books.

Packed with Beatrix Potter's exquisite watercolour and line drawn illustrations, in this beautiful big book. Perfect to read and share as a bedtime story book.

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Kitty's Reader Notes & Book Snippet

Beatrix loved traditional children's stories and poetry so although this book was compiled many years after she wrote the Original Peter Rabbit books and revived from her original manuscripts so I am sure she would have approved of the idea! The resulting book is a Nursery Classic your own personal Toolkit of Nursery Rhymes all Delectably illustrated to entertain and delight your child at Bedtime! Packed with Beatrix Potter's exquisite watercolour and line drawn illustrations, in this beautiful big book

Contents Include well loved traditional Children's Nursery Rhymes such as : Goosey Goosey Gander Ride a Cock Horse The Old Woman who lived in a Shoe Old Mother Hubbard I had a little Dog Pussy's in the Well! I had a little Nut Tree The Owl and the Pussy Cat Little Jack Horner The House that Jack Built And many more delightful poems including much of the poetry written by Beatrix Potter herself! An essential and lovely book to add to the collection of any Beatrix Potter Fan. My Beatrix Potter books were bought in the 1990's when I visited Beatrix Potter's house a trip I would recommend to everyone! This is the First Edition Thus Copy with original Dust Wrapper published in 1987. To quote Beatrix Potter: " If I have done anything - even a little - to help small children on the road to enjoy and appreciate honest and simple pleasures , I have done a bit of good." These timeles and adorable books will be loved by your children just as they have been loved by many children for around a century.

BOOK HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Hardback
  • Illustrated
  • Collectable
  • Vintage Bedtime Story Book

BOOK ERA:

  • 1980's Vintage Children's Books

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Author Bio & Publication

Read about the life of Beatrix Potter and browse more of her super vintage children's books

Beatrix Potter.

Publisher: F Warne & Co
Date: 1984
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardback
Dust Jacket: Yes ( Full Colour)

Condition Notes: EXCELLENT

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This is fresh from the attic in excellent vintage condition .

All the pages are good and clean with no messy graffiti of any kind or name inscriptions.

Spine Intact with titles visible and minimal wear.

Medium sized book.

The glossy boards are excellent under a jacket that shows just the tiniest hints of shelfwear and is slightly age toned. (tiny repaired 8 mm tear to the bottom of the dust jacket).

Please remember this vintage book has been loved before and is not new condition is graded taking this into consideration.

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SIZE: Height 24.5 cms x Width 22.5 cms.
FORMAT: Hardback
PAGES: 60pp ( inc. publisher's note and small list of The Original Peter Rabbit Books by Beatrix Potter.)

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