Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1904 - 1905
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Measurements
200 x 157 mm; 1 sheet (Extent)
Order this imageCollection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria
NT 242235.43
Summary
Loose sheet from the manuscript dummy HIL.R.34 containining a pencil-written rhyme and a pencil illustration of a bee, the drawing annotated in pencil 'heather'. The sheet was slipped in between pages 70 and 71 of the dummy book. Who'll buy my honey bags, buy them, who'll but?/ Sweet heather honey - Come weigh them to try!/ Honey bag honey pot home came she!/ Nobody buys from a big Bumble bee! See also HIL.R.34, the dummy book; HIL.R.34.1 - HIL.R.34.42 and HIL.R.34.44 - HIL.R.34.49, further rhymes and illustrations.
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), writer