1991 "Second Edition 1971" stated; author - Leslie Linder; Frederick Warne & CO publishers, London and New York "Printed in Great Britain" stated; wonderful color and black and white illustrations throughout book;  larger hardbound in Carneilian red boards with gilt dragon on cover and gilt lettering on spine (quite nice); very good condition with unmarked pages, appears unread; dust jacket has a few nicks along edges, but not bad - see pics.
 
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Thanks to Leslie Linder's unquenchable enthusiam, this is an exciting book, because he not only tells the tale behind The Tales - the history of how each book in the famous Peter Rabbit series came to be written - but his persistent research, begun as far back as 1952, has uncovered a wealth of Beatrix Potter's writing which has never been published before...