Kate Greenaway

  • SIGNED
  • London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905
By [With an Original Sketch by Kate Greenaway]. Spielman, M.H. [Marion Harry] and Layard, G.S. [George Somes]
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. First Edition. Good plus in original cream cloth top edge gilt with soiling, spine slightly darkened and tears to spine cloth, wear to extremities, hinges starting.. First, De Luxe Edition, #236 of 500 hand-numbered copies.

Signed twice by John Greenaway, the artist's brother. With an original drawing by Kate Greenaway in pencil captioned "Nimble Dick" tipped into window mount, as issued.

Color-printed frontispiece and 53 plates after Greenaway, and numerous other illustrations and facsimiles after Greenaway and others.

The exhaustive reference work on Greenaway.

4to. [i-iii], v-xx, 301pp. Schuster & Engen 226.

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