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POTTER (BEATRIX) WEATHERLY (FREDERIC E.) A Happy Pair... Illustrated by H.B.P., FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK ILLUSTRATED BY BEATRIX POTTER, Hildesheimer & Faulkner, [1890]
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A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF BEATRIX POTTER'S CHARACTERISTIC ILLUSTRATIONS. Following a suggestion from her brother, Potter "sent some of her rabbit drawings to Hildesheimer & Faulkner, a greetings-card publisher, who to her amazement and delight sent her a cheque for £6 by return, with a request for more. The company then made cards from some of her drawings, and others they used as illustrations to a set of verses by Frederic E. Weatherly in a booklet called A Happy Pair. At 24 Beatrix had begun her professional career" (Judy Taylor, The Artist and Her World, p.17).





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