Margaret
Lane The Tale of Beatrix Potter, a Biography. Published London: Frederick Warne
& Co. Ltd., 1968. Hardback, octavo format, dustjacket. Original binding of blue
leatherette with gilt lettering to spine, decorative gilt borders to upper
cover. Blue endpapers. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies, of which this is
number 40. Signed by the author to the limitation page. Photographic
frontispiece. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographs. Brown
mottling to verso of half title page and frontispiece with a couple of spots on
the frontispiece and title page, otherwise the book is in very good condition
in very good condition covers. Glassine dustjacket present and in very good
condition. Slipcase present and in good condition, but worn to edges with some
loss and split to bottom edge.