Beatrix Potter's Secret Code Breaker: The Tale of Leslie Linder's Luck, Perseverance and Generosity - Softcover
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Beatrix Potter's secret code breaker : the story of Leslie Linder's perseverance, luck and generosity
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The Arthington Publishing Company Ltd, Danbury, Chelmsford, 2016
ISBN 10: 0993409008
ISBN 13: 9780993409004
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Seller: BiblioFile, Cadole, FLINT, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. RARE AUTHOR SIGNED HARDBACK COPY - AS NEW IN AN 'AS NEW' COMPLETE DUST JACKET : Summary : Did you know that Beatrix Potter, in 1881, at the tender age of fifteen, invented her own secret cipher-coded alphabet and that she used it to write an 'almost lost' Journal until she was thirty years old This was before she became the world-famous author and illustrator of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and a mycological expert, farmer, and major donor to the National Trust. It took a forgotten Essex businessman five years to break the code, then eight more to translate and publish over two hundred thousand words of her thoughts, observations, and recollections. His name was Leslie Linder - owner of an international shipping and engineering company, skilled designer of aerial masts for Marconi, literary celebrity, Beatrix Potter scholar and donor of the world's largest collection of her art, writing, and memorabilia. His life, like her Journal, was almost forgotten but in reading about Leslie Linder, Beatrix Potter's Secret Code Breaker, you will learn that this is a tale just as interesting and significant as that of the creator of Peter Rabbit.{ Goodreads } xiv, 322 pages : illustrations, portraits. Includes bibliographical references. Small amount of ephemera laid in, together with a written ink note to myself, from the Author. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 032551