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This deluxe volume brings all Beatrix Potter's twenty-three Peter Rabbit tales and verses together in one book. The texts are complete and unabridged and all the original illustrations, both colour and black and white, are included. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were first published to enable them to be read in the proper sequence for, although each story stands on its own, several are linked together by events and characters. Beatrix Potter's tales were often connected with real places, people or animals so each story has a brief introductory note about its history. The revised edition of the Complete tales, published in 1997, includes other material in addition to the twenty-three "Original Peter Rabbit Books". Two early narrative picture sequences, Three Little Mice and The Rabbits' Christmas Party, demonstrate the rich and detailed style of Beatrix Potter's finest illustrative work. And there are two charming little stories, The Sly Old Cat and The Fox and the Stork, which were originally intended to be worked up into books but for one reason or another remained unpublished. The World of Beatrix Potter, presented here in its entirety, is as appealing now as when it was first created at the turn of the century, and this beautiful classic volume is a book to treasure for a lifetime.
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