The Art of Beatrix Potter

London: Frederick Warne, 1972. — 440 p.Beatrix Potter is known and loved for her children's hooks; her Peter Rabbit series has delighted young and old for many years, and will continue to do so for many more.This revised and enlarged edition reveals her greatness as an artist, and in some measure explains the secret of her charm. Leslie Linder, recognised throughout the world as the authority on Beatrix Potter, has included many new reproductions of her art in this volume, and he and his sister Enid have prefaced each section with introductory notes which tell the history of her pictures and trace the development of her work as a writer and illustrator of children's hooks.