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Kate Greenaway
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. Item #06646
Kate Greenaway - Finely Bound
[GREENAWAY, Kate]. SPIELMANN, M.H., and G.S. LAYARD. Kate Greenaway. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905.
First edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 6 1/8 inches; 216 x 156 mm.). xix, [1], 300, [1], [1, blank], [2, advertisements] pp. Color frontispiece and fifty-three color plates after Kate Greenaway, with descriptive tissue guards, and numerous black and white illustrations, including thirty-four half-tone plates.
Bound ca. 1950 in full red morocco, covers decoratively bordered in gilt with an inlaid frame of black calf, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, pink endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine very slightly faded otherwise near fine.
“Containing upwards of 80 full page illustrations, 53 of which are reproduced in facsimile from original water-colour drawings by Kate Greenaway. There are also numerous thumb nail sketches with pen and pencil throughout the text, many of them from letters to Ruskin. Few of the illustrations have ever been published before. The Edition de Luxe is limited to 500 copies…each copy being signed by Mr. John Greenaway and numbered. It contains the earliest impressions of the illustrations, and the letterpress is printed on hand-made paper. Bound in white vellum cloth, gilt top…Each of these copies contains an original pencil sketch by Kate Greenaway…Fifteen Extra Copies. Each of these copies contains at least one original water-color sketch by Kate Greenaway” (Publisher’s Prospectus).
Schuster & Engen 226; Thomson 400.
Price: $375.00