The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part IV

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Lot 56
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Greenaway, Kate--Browning, Robert

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1888]
  • Paper
4to (249 x 217mm.), FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with "Glasgow" on the imprint and "Published by arrangement with the Proprietors of the Copyright" on the verso of the title-page), PRESENTATION COPY WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE ILUSTRATOR ("The | Lady | Dorothy Nevill | From | Kate Greenaway | Dec 1888") on the half-title, illustrations by Greenaway, original cloth backed pictorial boards, blue edges, collector's blue watered silk chemise and morocco-backed box, endpapers slightly soiled, extremities of boards worn

Provenance

Lady Dorothy Nevill, inscription; Louise Ward Watkins, bookplate and inscription dated "Dec 19 1925"; Estelle Doheny, book label; her sale at Christie's New York, 21-22 February 1989, lot 1988

Literature

Schuster & Engen 157.1a

Catalogue Note

Lady Dorothy Nevill was a friend and patron of Greenaway, and the artist often added additional illustrations to the books and almanacks she presented to her.

In a letter dated 1900, Greenaway writes to Lady Dorothy "It is so nice of you to think of buying one of my drawings... I like to GIVE YOU anything you like...drawings are the only things I have to give to my friends, and I feel it too much you should buy them" (The Life and Letters on Dorothy Nevill, Ralph Nevill, 1919).

THE DOHENY COPY