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Kate Greenaway. KATE GREENAWAY'S BOOK OF GAMES. George Routledge & Sons, 1889.
Price: US$36.46 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Previous owners inscriptions: Yes as shown. Book Condition: Good. Covers a little grubby. First blank page missing. Jacket condition: No jacket. Published: 1889. Edition: 1st edition. Believed to be. Pages: 64. Description: 24 illustrations accompanying the games. The games described include Mulberry Bush, Oranges and Lemons, Skipping, Hop Scotch, Follow my leader and many more.
Seller: HAWKMOOR BOOKS LTD, WINCHESTER, United Kingdom
Kate Greenaway. Kate Greenaway's Book of Games. George Routledge and Sons [1889], London, 1889.
Price: US$231.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition copy of this charming work, containing instructions for playing numerous different games, popular during the Victorian Era. This work was written by Kate Greenaway, a renowned Victorian artist and writer best known for her children's book illustrations. Collated, complete with twenty four coloured full-page plates, engraved and printed in colour by Edmund Evans, a prominent English wood-engraver and colour printer during the Victorian era. This copy is undated, dated using Copac. In the original binding, with blue cloth spine with pictorial card boards. Externally generally smart with bumping and rubbing to extremities. Slight rubbing to spine and head and tail of spine. Hinges slightly strained but reasonably firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages slightly age toned but bright and clean, with the odd spot only to first and last few pages. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Greenaway, Kate. Kate Greenaway's Book of Games. George Routledge & Sons, 1889.
Price: US$251.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The plates were engraved by Edmund Evans and this was his copy. His tiny book label is glued to the front pastedown. Pictorial paper covered boards, blue cloth spine, as issued. Some rubbing and wear to corners and edges, staining to front board, worn patch to border of rear board with loss of the paper. Tight and sound copy. No inscriptions. 64 pages, 24 colour plates. Approx. size 9.5" by 7.5". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 26651.
Seller: Steve Liddle, ABA PBFA ILAB, Bristol, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Greenaway, Kate. KATE GREENAWAY'S BOOK OF GAMES. London; Glasgow; Manchester; New York: George Routledge & Sons, [1889]. FIRST EDITION [Schuster 43, 1(d)]. 8vo - 7-1/2" x 9-3/8". All edges tinted yellow. Blue cloth covered boards with title stamped in black and gold to upper cover; additionally, a picture of two boys playing with a top and a picture of a group of girls playing blind man's buff, all stamped in colors on the upper cover; rubbing to the corners and to the head and tail of spine and some rippling to the cloth on the lower cover. Yellow endpapers. 63, [1] pp. Neat gift inscription dated 1889 on the half title. This is a wonderful book with the instructions for playing fifty-three different games popular during the Victorian Era, many of which have since been long forgotten; twenty-four of the games are illustrated with a full color drawing by Greenaway of children playing the game; the twenty-four full page plates were engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. The condition of the book is VERY GOOD +.
Seller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.