- It"s been 110 years since Frederick Warne published Beatrix Potter"s very first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and in celebration, we are delighted to be publishing special editions of her entire body of work. Unlike the traditional little white books, these editions have delightful colourful covers and specially designed endpapers. And to make them extra special, we have included a publisher"s note to tell you all about the history of how each book came to be. Cecily Parsley"s Nursery Rhymes is a sequel to Beatrix Potter"s first rhyme collection, Appley Dapply"s Nursery Rhymes. Like the previous book it contains material she had produced and collected over a period of many years. The Cecily Parsley sequence of illustrations, for example, were first made into a little booklet twenty-five years earlier, in 1897. Cecily Parsley"s Nursery Rhymes is the last of Beatrix Potter"s series of 23 little books.