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[POTTER FAMILY]. POTTER, EDMUND. Pamphlets, published at various periods from 1831 to 1855. Manchester: Johnson and Rawson, 1855. 3 color-printed plates after calico designs. Together 7 pamphlets bound in one volume, 8vo, contemporary cloth, gilt-lettered on spine.
Beatrix Potter's grandfather, Edmund Potter, "had made a considerable fortune as a calico printer, setting up his own printing works in Glossop in the early 1820s, and introducing machine printing to an industry that until then had known only the time-consuming use of hand blocks."--Judy Taylor, "The Story of Beatrix Potter, p. 9. These papers refer to aspects of his trade, both financial and educational, and include: "Lecture on Calico Printing," "Letter to One of the Commissioners of the Exhibition," "The Strike: A Letter to the Working Classes," "Practical Opinions Against Parnership with Limited Liability," and more. The deluxe cloth bindings selected by Beatrix on several of her Little Books were chosen from samples sent from her grandfather's textile printing works (see lots...).
Beatrix Potter's grandfather, Edmund Potter, "had made a considerable fortune as a calico printer, setting up his own printing works in Glossop in the early 1820s, and introducing machine printing to an industry that until then had known only the time-consuming use of hand blocks."--Judy Taylor, "The Story of Beatrix Potter, p. 9. These papers refer to aspects of his trade, both financial and educational, and include: "Lecture on Calico Printing," "Letter to One of the Commissioners of the Exhibition," "The Strike: A Letter to the Working Classes," "Practical Opinions Against Parnership with Limited Liability," and more. The deluxe cloth bindings selected by Beatrix on several of her Little Books were chosen from samples sent from her grandfather's textile printing works (see lots...).