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Price: US$32.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1880 gift inscription on the half title page; no printed date. Blue cloth spine with pictorial lithographed boards front and back, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, outer corners worn through and slightly rounded, blue end papers, all edges stained yellow, 64 pp, light tidemark in the top margin in the last half of the book. No. 95, in, Kate Greenaway: A Catalogue of the Kate Greenaway Collection, Rare Book Room, Detroit Public Library.Includes the imprint on the verso of the tp, "Drawn on Stone & Printed by Wemple & Company, Art Lithographers, New York." Also includes "End of Contents" at bottom of p. 14. There are full-page color plates on pp. 21 & 35.Kate Greenaway (1846-1901), English artist and book illustrator known for her original and charming children's books. "In 1879 she produced her first successful book, Under the Window, followed by The Birthday Book (1880), Mother Goose (1881), Little Ann (1883), and other books for children, which had an enormous success and became highly valued. 'Toy-books' though they were, these little works created a revolution in book illustration; they were praised by John Ruskin, by Ernest Chesneau and Arsene Alexandre in France, by Richard Muther in Germany, and by other leading art critics throughout the world." - Encyclopedia Britannica online.
Seller: Haaswurth Books, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Barker, Mrs. Sale. KATE GREENAWAY'S BIRTHDAY BOOK FOR CHILDREN. George Routledge & Sons, 1880.
Price: US$41.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1880 routledge first edition with colour illustrationms has some pencilled and ink wordings on loose presentation page and the occiosnal inked entry but few and far between s[pine cover has split down one side seam. Pretty good condition barring the afore mentioned faults but price reduced accordingly
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A little square book, 3.75 by 3.75 inches. With 302 illustrations by Kate Greenaway, twelve of which are color plates, printed by Edmund Evans, accompanied by verses by Mrs. Sale Barker. No date is printed, but an inscription on the presentation page is dated Oct 25th 1880. A few friends' names are written in on their birth date pages. The turquoise endpapers are split at both inside hinges. One plate is dog-eared. On the whole a good copy in pictorial cloth boards.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Barker, Mrs. Sale. KATE GREENAWAY'S BIRTHDAY BOOK FOR CHILDREN. George Routledge & Sons, 1880.
Price: US$86.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1880. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Verses by Mrs. Barker, 382 illustrations by Greenaway (colour plates and b/w text illustrations). Small format (3.75 x 4"). Beige decorated cloth covers with bevelled edges. Turquoise endpapers. 125 numbered pages. All edges yellow. Spine and corners bumped, spine split along rear edge (but not detached). Covers foxed. Initials and date in ink to verso of front endpaper. Front joint is broken at lower half, rear joint is cracking. There are a few neat ink entries but generally the contents are clean and mainly unused. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first edition of this popular and charming birthday book by Kate Greenaway, beautifully and colourfully illustrated throughout. The first edition, the green cloth variant.A charming volume containing a brief verse for each day of the year. With blank leaves bound between each leaf, intended for the owner to note birthdays of their loved ones.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, eleven colour plates, and in-text illustrations throughout.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library.Verses by Mrs. Sale Barker, Lucy-Sale Barker.Greenaway was an artist and writer during the Victorian era, and was best known for her illustrations for children's books. Her career began when she illustrated the burgeoning market of holiday cards, before her first work, 'Under the Window', was published, making her an instant success. Most of her drawings depict Queen Anne style costume, an imaginary eighteenth century style rather than Victorian. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Light rubbing to the spine and extremities. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards. Front hinge is starting but firm, rear hinge is strained but remain firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean with the occasional spot. The occasional ink not to the blank leaves. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: - 24mo [3-5/8 inches square], tan cloth titled in brown on the front cover with color vignettes of figures representing the four seasons stamped on the corners of each cover. The edges are stained yellow. The cloth of the front cover is slightly bubbled. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway with 12 color plates & 370 black & white vignettes printed in the margins of verses by Mrs. Sale Barker. Printed by Edmund Evans. There is an 1884 gift inscription on the flyleaf & the rear hinge is cracked. 20-30 names are neatly written as appropriate near their birth dates. Good.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$301.63 + shipping
Description: [vi], [4], 126[6]pp. 32mo.(92mm x 92mm). First edition in a variant binding. Original full red morocco with gold gilt lettering and decoration stamped to the front and gilt embossed bands to the spine. Cream coloured endpapers. All edges gilt. Illustrated with 12 full page colour plates and many small illustrations throughout the text. The previous owner has written their name on the ffep and has also added names next to some of the birth dates. Some rubbing along the edges and a small spot of ink to the back board. Overall, a well loved copy in very good condition. Schuster & Engen, 39, 3a. A lovely little book with 382 illustrations by Greenaway and verses by Mrs. Sale Barker. This is a variant binding of the first edition, which appears to be quite scarce. Along with Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway was one of the most influential illustrators of her age. Greenaway's illustrations even gave rise to a fashion in young children's clothing in the 1880s and 1890s.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$386.71 + shipping
Description: Cartonato editoriale figurato a colori (leggermente scurito e con una minuscola mancanza alla cuffia superiore). Tagli gialli. Dedica datata 1880 e sporadiche indicazioni manoscritte di compleanni sulle pagine bianche a ciò appositamente destinate. Ottimo esemplare. Rara prima edizione. 32mo oblungo (cm. 10x10), 2 cc.nn., 126 pp., 3 cc.nn. Con piccole illustrazioni in nero n.t. e 12 tavv. a colori f.t. (di cui una in antiporta). Testo entro cornice verde.
Seller: Libreria Ex Libris ALAI-ILAB/LILA member, Roma, Italy
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Original beige pictorial cloth. Beveled edges. In the publisher's scarce, plain blue dust jacket. Dust jacket chipped, and split at folds. A bit of soiling to cloth, otherwise an internally clean (with no pencilings) copy. Twelve color plates, 370 small black and white interleaved text illustrations. A beautiful gift book, feauting the work of one of the most recognizable and prolific illustrators of the Victorian period.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
GREENAWAY, Kate.. Collection of works.. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880-94], 1880.
Price: US$2576.53 + shipping
Description: First editions; an attractive assemblage of works by one of the most significant Victorian illustrators, including an Almanack in the rare dust jacket and from the library of the writer Sir Hugh Walpole. The titles comprise Greenaway's Alphabet, Birthday Book for Children and a gathering of her beloved Almanacks issued within the years 1883 to 1894. Kate Greenaway (1846-1901), "in her idyllic and profoundly nostalgic depictions of vaguely eighteenth-century and slightly stilted children. combined strong outlines and a keen ability to arrange and pattern space with the use of a palette of soft, silvery pastel colours" (ODNB). Her illustrations did not simply reflect the era, they defined it by influencing a wide range of designers and industries, an effect which is perhaps unique to Greenaway among book illustrators. "It is often claimed by admirers that, during the 1860s and 1870s, Kate Greenaway dressed a generation of children; that her influence upon fashion was to ensnare such diverse personalities as Isidora Duncan, the German Kaiser as well as royal infants, each one dutifully outfitted in Kate Greenaway apparel. Such influence extended into the spheres of commercial printing, publishing, fine art porcelain, jewellery and haberdashery" (Schuster & Engen, p. 9). The sheer extent of Greenaway publications - 574 items listed in the definitive catalogue raisonné of Schuster and Engen, most with multiple variants - all but ensures that a truly comprehensive collection is impossible. "That is the beauty of Kate Greenaway, nobody will ever have them all" (ibid., p. 7). The dust jacket in this collection was printed to serve as the original mailing envelope for Almanack for 1885. Prior to the 1920s, jackets were often discarded at the point of purchase, and one which doubles as an envelope is even less likely to have been retained. This item is from the library of the successful novelist Sir Hugh Walpole (1884-1941), with his red book label giving his primary residence of Brackenburn in the Lake District, the setting which inspired many of his books. Among Walpole's supporters was Joseph Conrad, who observed in his introduction to A Hugh Walpole Anthology (1921), "we see Mr Walpole grappling with the truth of things spiritual and material with his characteristic earnestness" (p. 8). A full list of titles is provided below. A. Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book for Children. Verses by Mrs Sale Barker, [1880]. Variant binding of dark brown limp morocco not noted in Schuster & Engen (similar binding in red leather given as 39.3a). B. Kate Greenaway's Alphabet, [c.1885]. Three copies in yellow pictorial boards with green spines, all in the same variant of a smaller size with green inner covers and edges. Schuster & Engen 23.1c. C. Almanack for 1883. Two copies in binding variants, one in pink cloth stamped in gilt and green with children playing a ring game, the other in limp leather with gilt ring enclosing lettering and four children. Schuster & Engen 3.1f; 3.1g. D. Almanack for 1884. Three copies in wrappers illustrating two children glancing at the moon, each copy with variant border colours: either white, printed light brown, or stained dark brown. Schuster & Engen 4.2a; 4.2b; 4.2c. E. Almanack for 1885. Two copies in yellow pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine, one with light turquoise endpapers, the other with variant blue-black endpapers in dust jacket with Sir Hugh Walpole's bookplate. Schuster & Engen 5.3a; 5.3b. F. Almanack for 1886. Variant binding of white imitation morocco boards. Schuster & Engen 6.4c. G. Almanack for 1892. White pictorial boards with variant green cloth spine. Schuster & Engen 12.10b. H. Almanack for 1894. Brown pictorial boards with matching cloth spine and dark green endpapers. Schuster & Engen 14.12a. Schuster & Engen, Printed Kate Greenaway: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1986. Together 14 volumes, consisting of 8 works and 6 duplicates, some with varying states; one copy of Almanack for 1885 with dust jacket. All in original bindings and housed in a repurposed pull-off red quarter morocco box. Illustrations throughout each work in colour. Bookplate of Mary Augusta Elton (1838-1914), co-author of The Great Book-Collectors (1893), in Almanack for 1885; another copy of this title with bookplate of Sir Hugh Walpole (see note) and ownership inscription, "L. W. Watkins, 28 June 1924". A few bindings slightly rubbed and soiled, occasional wear to edges, foxing in a single volume, the rest clean; jacket of Almanack for 1885 slightly chipped at edges with a couple of closed tears: overall a very good collection.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom