Here is a sample of his work:
And he has illustrated Beatrix Potter., according to this story.
A previously unknown Beatrix Potter story, "The Tale of Kitty Boots," was discovered in the Victoria & Albert archive in London. The story will be published for the first time this fall [2016] with illustrations by Quentin Blake. Two years ago, Penguin publisher Jo Hanks found mention of the unedited story in a 1914 letter, which set her on a research quest.
Here is more detail, from the same source I think:
“The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots, a manuscript by Beatrix Potter, was rediscovered ... when Jo Hanks, publisher at PRH Children’s in the U.K., stumbled across an out-of-print literary history about Beatrix Potter from the early 1970s. Hanks found in the book both a reference to a letter that Potter had sent her publisher in 1914, which referred to a story about ‘a well-behaved prime black Kitty cat, who leads rather a double life,’ and an unedited manuscript of the tale. A trip to the V&A archive, where many of Potter’s items are kept, revealed three manuscripts, handwritten in children’s school notebooks, one rough colour sketch of Kitty-in-Boots, a dummy book with some of the typeset manuscript laid out and a pencil rough of arch-villain Mr. Tod.”
Another Blake cat:
And here's a bunch more.
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