First Edition
In the Incredibly Scarce Dust jacket
GREENAWAY, Kate. Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book For Children. 382 Illustrations by Kate Greenaway, Printed by Edmund Evans, Verses by Mrs. Sale Barker. London & New York: Goerge Routledge and Sons, n.d. [1880].
First edition. 32mo (3 3/8 x 3 3/8 in; 87 x 87 mm). Twelve color plates, 370 small black and white interleaved text illustrations.
Original beige pictorial cloth. Beveled edges. In the publisher's scarce, unprinted blue dust jacket. Some wear to binding, a few note leaves with penciling or ink. Dust jacket chipped, and in two pieces. A bit of soiling to cloth, otherwise an internally clean (with no pencilings) copy.
Price: $750
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