A Victorian Naturalist: Beatrix Potter's Drawings from the Armitt Collection

by Mary Noble, Beatrix Potter, Eileen Jay, et al.

Shortly after her marriage in 1913 Beatrix Potter became a member of the Armitt Library in Ambleside, Cumbria. This subscription library had been founded a year earlier by three sisters to create a collection of books of scientific, literary and antiquarian value that was intended eventually to become a small museum. Beatrix Potter strongly approved of the aims and ideals of the Armitt sisters, particularly their concern for the study of natural history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0723239908
• ISBN13: 9780723239901
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Frederick Warne and Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.1" x 10.2"