The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part IV

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Lot 54
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Greenaway, Kate

Estimate
2,000 - 2,500 GBP
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Description

  • Greenaway, Kate
  • A complete set of Almanacks for 1883-1895, and Almanack and Diary for 1897. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883-1895; J.M. Dent and Sons, 1897
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24mo (132 x 93mm. and smaller) and one oblong 24mo (75 x 101mm.), 14 volumes, colour illustrations by Greenaway throughout engraved by Edmund Evans, original imitation morocco (1883, 1886, 1891, 1892, 1894 and 1897), original limp pictorial wrappers (1884), original cloth back pictorial boards (1885, 1889, 1893 and 1895) and original pictorial cloth (1887, 1888 and 1890), 8 vols with gilt edges, collector's blue morocco backed box by Zaehnsdorf, a few volumes with slight soiling to boards, occasional spotting and browning, soiling in three places on both front and rear paste down endpapers of Almanack for 1891, a few ink inscriptions in Almanack and Diary for 1897 (14)

Literature

Schuster & Engen, 3.1d, 4.2a, 5.3a, 6.4c, 7.5b, 8.6g, 9.7a, 10.8b, 11.9b, 12.10e, 13.11a, 14.12b, 15.13a and 16.14a

Catalogue Note

INCLUDING A PRESENTATION COPY OF THE ALMANACK AND DIARY FOR 1897, inscribed by the author "Mrs Miller | from | Kate Greenaway | 1896". Schuster & Engen describe this as Greenaway's rarest almanack. 

There was no almanack produced for 1896.