The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part IV

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Lot 53
  • 53

Greenaway, Kate

Estimate
300 - 500 GBP
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Description

  • Greenaway, Kate
  • Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. London and New York: George Routledge & Sons, [1881]
  • Paper
small 8vo (167 x 119mm.), FIRST EDITION, second issue (with lattice design on cover and "Contents of this Book" on verso of front free endpaper), colour illustrations throughout by Kate Greenaway, pink cloth backed boards decorated with a green lattice and lettered in brown, pink edges, DUST-JACKET, some browning and spotting to slightly bowed boards, endpapers slightly soiled, minor wear to extremities of dust-jacket

Literature

Schuster & Engen 140.1b

Catalogue Note

Another example of the fruitful collaboration between Greenaway and Evans, whose seal appears here on the recto of the rear free endpaper. Greenaway refused to allow any other printer to engrave and print her illustrations after first working with Evans.