These Beatrix Potter Illustrations Were Found Tucked Inside a Mansion’s Books The children’s book author found inspiration on vacation. Erin Blakemore - Correspondent. July 11, 2016.

A collection of early drawings and letters by children's author Beatrix Potter has sold for £213,000 at auction. The haul included Potter's personal first edition of The Tailor of Gloucester.

The man who inspired Beatrix Potter's famous children's story, The Tailor of Gloucester, has been honoured with a plaque. John Samuel Prichard, who was born in 1877 and died in 1934, was a tailor ...

A BEATRIX POTTER watercolour fetched £289,250 last night, making it the most expensive book illustration ever sold at auction.

A "Mice in a Coconut" [Hildesheimer and Faulkner, c.1891] card, featuring some of Beatrix Potter's earliest printed work, sold for £1,125 ($1,500) at Sotheby's this week.

Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter is shown at her Hill Top farm in England in 1913. Beatrix Potter gave her readers glimpses of her gardens in the charming illustrations that accompanied her ...

The Kitty book was known to have been set in type but apparently died on the vine for want of her illustrations. Potter was by then almost 50 and having trouble with her eyesight, but she also ...

John Prichard was a tailor who had a shop on Westgate Street in Gloucester city centre The man who inspired Beatrix Potter's famous children's story, The Tailor of Gloucester, has been honoured ...