The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part IV

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Lot 57
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Greenaway, Kate

Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 GBP
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Description

  • Greenaway, Kate
  • Kate Greenaway's Almanack for 1892. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1891]
  • Paper
24mo (100 x 72mm.), PRESENTATION COPY WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR ("Mrs Sutton Nelthorpe | from | Kate Greenaway | 1891") on the half-title, colour illustrations, cream coloured imitation morocco pictorial boards lettered and with image of a boy and girl dancing in gilt and decorative border stamped in blue green, gilt edges, collector's brown cloth folding box, boards lightly soiled with small chip to foot of spine

Provenance

Mrs Sutton Nelthorpe, inscription

Literature

Schuster & Engen 12.10e

Catalogue Note

Greenaway embellishes this copy of her Almanack for her great friend, the Hon. Mrs Sutton Nelthorpe, with an extra illustration delicately rendered in pencil and watercolour.