Maintaining Potter prices is not all child’s play

In 1922, Beatrix Potter, with her most famous little books already behind her, was persuaded by Anne Carroll Moore of the New York Public Library to produce a book of illustrated nursery rhymes.

Using a mix of old drawings and a few new ones, she came up with Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes

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