The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part IV

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Lot 52
  • 52

Greenaway, Kate

Estimate
700 - 1,000 GBP
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Description

  • Greenaway, Kate
  • Under the Window. Pictures and Rhymes for Children by Kate Greenaway. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1878]
  • Paper
4to (235 x 180mm), FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with no printer's ornaments on either side of "Edmund Evans" on the title-page and "End of Contents" at the foot of p.14), colour illustrations throughout by Kate Greenaway, cloth backed pictorial boards, yellow edges, DUST-JACKET, some pages lightly browned, neat ink ownership inscription on verso of front free endpaper, dust-jacket worn at extremities with losses

Literature

Schuster & Engen 201.1f

Catalogue Note

THE CELEBRATED FIRST BOOK BOTH WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY GREENAWAY, printed by the pioneer colour engraver and printer Edmund Evans, who was largely responsible for establishing the Greenaway 'look'.