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She wrote the majority of the twenty-three Original Peter Rabbit Books between 1901 and 1913.  The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.  \r\n\r\nMany of Beatrix Potter’s imaginary drawings were made in the 1890s, before she published her books. These alphabet designs may have been made to amuse children that she knew: the ‘T’ is also an umbrella for a rabbit caught in the rain, the ‘C’ is a comfy seat for a mouse, while the letters ‘A’ and ‘W’ form the entrance-way to a rabbit’s roost. \r\n","physicalDescription":"A sheet with five designs for capital letters: in the upper centre a letter 'T' used as an umbrella by a rabbit; in the centre left a letter 'C', which a mouse facing away from the viewer sits in; in the centre right a letter 'Y' chewed by a mouse; in the lower left a latter 'A' and in the lower right the letter 'W', both the entrance ways to roosts used by rabbits. 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