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M. H. Spielmann; G. S. Layard. Kate Greenaway. Adam and Charles Black, London, 1905.
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: M. H. Spielmann and G. S. Layard's biographical work on the popular Victorian artist Kate Greenaway, illustrated with full colour plates depicting the artist's work. Reprint with minor alterations. First printed the same year in October.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, monochrome plates and vignettes and fifty three colour plates. Collated complete.This work was written by M. H. Spielmann and G. S. Layard and provides a biographical account of the life of artist Kate Greenaway with descriptions of her work. Greenaway was an English Victorian artist who was best known for her beautiful children's book illustrations.In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally sound with fading to the spine with closed tears and minor loss to the cloth to the head, bumping to the extremities, rubbing to the extremities to the tail of the boards and the odd minor mark. The odd minor handling mark to the endpapers with the odd spot to the rear with a bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. Internally pp. xi disbound but present, otherwise generally firmly bound with cords showing in places and pp. 88 tender. Pages lightly age toned, heavier to the half title, and generally clean with a mark to the index and advertisements. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
M. H. Spielmann; G. S. Layard. Kate Greenaway. Adam and Charles Black, London, 1905.
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition copy of this biography of Victorian artist and writer Kate Greenaway, best known for her children's book illustrations, many of which are included in this volume. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Ink inscription to the half title. Illustrated with 53 colour plates, 34 black and white plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. Collated, complete. Kate Greenaway was a beloved Victorian artist, known for her drawings of children in imaginary Queen Anne style costumes. In this work, Spielman and Layard provide a study of her life and work. 2 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, faded to the spine and boards but gilt remains bright. Bumped to the extremities with a couple of small tears to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Spielmann, M. H. And G. S. Layard. Kate Greenaway. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xx, 301 pgs plus 2 pgs, plus 8 additional pgs of publisher's books for sale. Colored Frontisplate with protective tissue, plus 51 additional color illustrations. There is also a vast array of b&w pencil sketches, drawings, photographs, etc. illuminating K. Greenaway's artistic talents and her life. Also includes a list of books, etc. illustrated wholly or inpart by Ms. Greenaway. Her drawings and letters, esp. those between her and author John Ruskin . . . the great friendship these letters illustrate as well as demonstrate Greenaway's humor, love, understanding of children and her abiding sense of beauty in landscape, people and all the world around her. Envelop, laid in, containing "Happy Birthday" with Letters from Alphabet by Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) published in London, late 19th century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; also laid-in are 6 pgs. from old magazine, advertising girls' dresses, designed/patterned after Kate Greenaway children book illustrations. Decorated blue/purple boards & spine are still quite handsome, with only minor fading/wear to spine, with a little bumping to head & heal. Interior pgs. & illustrations are very clean & very good cond. Size: 6 3/4" x 9"
Seller: Boxer Books, Newberg, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Edition De Luxe With an Exceptional Original Pencil Sketch by Kate Greenaway [GREENAWAY, Kate]. SPIELMANN, M.H., and G.S. LAYARD. Kate Greenaway. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 numbered copies (this copy being No. 181), signed by the artist's brother, John Greenaway. Large quarto (10 1/2 x 8 1/8 inches; 267 x 206 mm.). xix, [1], 300, [1], [3, blank] 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. Publisher's white cloth over beveled boards, front cover and spine lettered in gilt and decoratively stamped in blind in a geometric and floral design. Top edge gilt. Color pictorial endpapers. A near fine copy. All 500 copies of the Edition de Luxe have original Kate Greenaway artwork bound in. Copy No. 1 has five watercolor sketches, copy No. 2 has four, copy No. 3 has three, copy No. 4 has two, and copy Nos. 5-10 each have one watercolor sketch. Beginning with copy No. 11, each copy has an original pencil sketch. This example has an exceptional original pencil sketch by Kate Greenaway depicting a young girl, standing facing left, wearing a long dress with an empire waist, big puffy sleeves, and a wide sash with a bow at the back. At upper right, are detailed sketches of her arms, wearing long fingerless gloves, resting on a surface. "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). Kate Greenaway (1846-1901). The English illustrator Kate Greenaway dramatically changed the art of the picture book. For many modern critics, her work represents the essence of a Victorian childhood. For over a hundred and forty years, Kate Greenaway's works have been honored as representing the essence of illustrations for children. Her relatively simple line drawings and colored pictures of young boys and girls at play influenced generations of writers and illustrators for children. Her romantic conception of childhood was based in part on her own experiences. She was born in Hoxton, a community in what is now Greater London, England. "I had such a very happy time when I was a child," Greenaway is reported as saying in M. H. Spielmann and G. S. Lanyard's 1905 biography Kate Greenaway, "and, curiously, was so very much happier then than my brother and sister, with exactly the same surroundings. I suppose my imaginary life made me one long continuous joy-filled everything with a strange wonder and beauty. Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more-behind and beyond everything-to me. The golden spectacles were very very big." Schuster & Engen 226. Thomson 400.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.