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Myles B. Foster's "A Day in a Child's Life"
Illustrated by Kate Greenaway
[GREENAWAY, Kate, illustrator]. FOSTER, Myles B. A Day in a Child's Life. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Music by Myles B. Foster. (Organist of the Foundling Hospital.) Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans. London: George Routledge and Sons, [n.d., 1881].
First edition. Quarto (9 5/8 x 8 1/8 inches; 245 x 205 mm.). 29, [1, printer's imprint], [2, blank] pp. Color-printed wood-engraved text illustrations, several full-page (including frontispiece), most accompanied with musical notations.
Original light green glazed boards with light green cloth backstrip. Covers pictorially decorated with yellow flowers inside a yellow, green, and brown border. Extremities lightly rubbed along bottom, otherwise an exceptionally clean and near fine copy.
Schuster & Engen 66. Thomson 31.
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