174 pages, illustrated with black and white plates, bibliography of Beatrix Potter's work and index. A clean, unmarked and solid copy. First published in 1946, revised edition. ""When [Beatrix Potter] died in December 1943 no one, not even her husband, knew the whole story of her life. Her lonely Victorian childhood, her struggles for independence, her unhappy love-affair and happy marriage, the accidental influences that developed her genius, are here told in detail...with the addItion of much new material that has come to light since the biography was first written" (front flap)