Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Greenaway, Kate (Illustr.).. Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes.. , 1881.
Price: US$21.95 + shipping
Description: London & New York, George Routledge and Sons, o.J. (1881). 48 S. mit ganzseitigen, farbigen Illustrationen. Kl.-8°. OLwd.- Doderer LKJ I, 462 f.; Seebaß II, 673.- Erste Ausgabe.- Text Englisch.- Illustrated by Kate Greenaway, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.- Illustrierter Vortitel und S. 7/8 lose.- Einband berieben, etwas fleckig und gebräunt. Vorderer Vorsatz erneuert, hinterer Vorsatz stockfleckig. Kinderbücher, 19. Jahrhundert, Reime, illustrierte Bücher, England, Märchen, Mutter Gans
Seller: Antiquariat Diderot, Kiel, SH, Germany
Price: US$24.58 + shipping
Description: 1 Bl., 48 S. mit farb. Abb. Einb. mit Gebrauchsspuren, etw fl., ExLibris u. Besitzerschild auf Vorsatz. 2 Blätter lose, diese randrissig. Sprache: Englisch
Seller: Antiquariat Kunsthaus-Adlerstrasse, Stuttgart, Germany
Greenaway, Kate:. Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. London George Routledge c, 1881.
Price: US$25.44 + shipping
Description: Hardback 1st Edition 2nd Issue of the Lattice Edition, 12mo, 48pp hand coloured illustrations with captions. Good only in grubby boards, green end papers. Bound by R. Ingleton Drake (Eton) and engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Illustrations are clean with one plate having a tear but overall very clean. Black ink stain at edge of rear end paper. No D/W.
Seller: Pauline Harries Books, Liphook, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$30.73 + shipping
Description: 15-18,5 cm (kl. 8° - klein Oktav) Original Illustrierter Halbleinenband mit Titeldruck. (Rautengitter, verdrehtes "G". Einband und Innendeckel stärker fleckig, aber stabil. Fadenheftung stellenweise locker, Buchblock stellenweise locker, ein Blatt (Falz) mit ca 3 cm Riss. 48 (inkl. Titel und Vortitel) Bildtafeln durchgängig fleckig und gebräunt; meist gering, einige deutlicher, aber ohne Text- oder Bildverlust. Handschriftliche Geschenk-Widmung der Zeit (1882) auf dem Vortitel. Trotz der starken Gebrauchsspuren nicht ohne Charme. ; Sachgebiet: Kinderbücher; Schlagworte: Liederbücher, Lithografie
Seller: Versandantiquariat Gerhard Schend, Berlin, Germany
Price: US$31.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: hardback, small 8vo, (3)48pp, colour illustrations, some browning, foxing and offsetting throughout, two small closed tears on front edges, owner's bookplate on endpaper, lattice-patterned cream cloth, covers browned, corners bumped, Good condition
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
. Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. George Routledge and Sons, 1881.
Price: US$31.80 + shipping
Description: Light brown cloth-covered boards. Brown lettering on covers. Dark green decoration on covers. 12cm x 17cm. Covers soiled, and worn at edges. Corners bumped. Binding appears to have been re-glued. Colour illustrations within the text all appear to be present, however several stubs between pages suggest that plates may have been removed from the book. Pages tanned and fingermarked.
Seller: The Children's Bookshop, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 38 of 48pp.; HB tan w/green diamond design w/'Mother Goose' on covers---G is upside down. heavy rub w/stain&soil; sunned; hinges cracke w/most pages detached; **Missing pgs. 17/18, 27/28, 33/34, 45/46, & 47/48.; lt.soil&tan; chips&tears. illus.
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
. MOTHER GOOSE OR THE OLD NURSERY RHYMES. George Routledge & Sons, 1881.
Price: US$40.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st 1881. Good condition with no wrapper. 2nd issue of 1st edition. Pink cloth spine. Green lattice to cream cloth covers. Upside Down 'G' to Goose on front cover. Olive green endpapers. 2nd issue of the first edition. Covers are grubby with bumping to spine and corners. Name in ink (partially erased) to front free-endpaper. Hinges are cracked and pulled (showing stitching beneath) but the binding is still generally tight. Some pages are slightly grubby. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.25 + shipping
Description: Illus. by Kate Greenaway, 6.75 x 5", cloth backed patterned cloth-like boards, 48pp, covers heavily worn, spotted and darkened, extremities fraying, hinges loose, inner hinges cracked, front fly missing, pp toned and finger soiled with shadows from opposite pages, former owner's paper address label inside front cover. SWAF. FIRST EDITION, Second Issue with lattice design and upside-down "G" on cover.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Greenaway, Kate. Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. George Routeledge and Sons, 1881.
Price: US$45.79 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 'Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes' by Kate Greenaway. George Routledge and Sons [1881]. FIrst edition, second issue. Boards slightly rubbed and marked. A little foxing. Good.
Seller: D & M Books, PBFA, Mirfield, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.79 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Greenaway, Kate, illustrator. Mother Goose, or the old nursery rhymes / illustrated by Kate Greenaway ; engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. London: George Routledge and Sons, s.d. [1881, date from British Library]. First edition, second impression with inverted ''G'' in the title on the cover denoting second impression. Hardback, Fair. Cream cloth boards decorated in a green lattice pattern with red lettering to front. Cloth is frayed in places to edges, starting to come away from the board in bottom r.h. corner to front, with slight damage to top and base of spine. Covers are rubbed and age-discoloured, and bumped to corners. Binding intact but a bit loose, with webbing visible along the gutters. Green endpapers. Front pastedown with small seller's label of Le Liebre, Jersey. Ownership signature to fep, dated September 13, 1882. Some foxing and discolouration to early pages, but the page become whiter and cleaner through the book. 48pp., colour illustrations throughout. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.
Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.75 + shipping
Description: Color illustr by Kate Greenaway, 6.5 x 5, rebacked cloth, 48 pp, covers very worn and darkened, fore-corners bumped and fraying, long ink presentation inscription from former owner (dated 1881) on front fly, pp darkened, soiled, with some edge tears and one foredge repair. "Lattice" Edition (First edition, Second issue), with upside down "G" on cover, green eps, and "Contents of This Book" page. SWAF.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$59.95 + shipping
Description: ----------( 1st printing of this tr-issued Edition ) ---hardcover, a fair to Good example, pale beige boards with lattice design, overall browning and soiling to boards, some rubbing to edges and tips, , gift inscription on half title page dated 1883, ---bookplate (showing Longleat House and the family motto ) for The Marquess of Bath on verso of front board, ---this is the 2nd issue (variant) with the lattice design on both boards, the "G" in Goose on both boards is upside down, printer's seal on rear endpaper, some page numbers are slightly askew (as seen in other copies), -a reasonable copy with a nice association, The Marquess of Bath of was the first aristocrat to open his home to tourists in an attempt to pay taxes owing, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo //NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5w x 6.75h Inches
Seller: Leonard Shoup, BURLINGTON, ON, Canada
Price: US$61.44 + shipping
Description: 170mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 48pp. Forty-five colour illustrations with coloured frontis plate and title page. First edition, second issue: Green lattice design to front and rear boards; green endpapers; upside down 'm' on p. 25; upside down 'G' in the 'Goose' on front board. Worn condition. Cover rubbed and marked. Some foxing and marks within. Previous owner inscription (1882) to paste-down Olive green decorated hardback cloth cover
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$63.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: "Author's Edition." 48 p.: chromolithographed illustrations; 18 cm. Blue-green cloth spine; pink glazed pictorial boards with identical chromolithographed illustration and title on each board. Olive green endpapers. All page edges pink. llustrated half title and title pages. Colophon on back free endpaper: "Drawn on Stone & Printed by Wemple & Company Art Lithographers New York." Contents printed on front free endpaper verso. No date of publication; 1881 is the date commonly assigned to this edition. Thomson, Catalogue of the Kate Greenaway Collection, 139a. In Fair+ Condition: edges are rubbed with some loss at spine ends; cloth splitting from head of spine over front joint; boards have faded to brown; separated along both hinges but some stitching still holding; soiling throughout, primarily on margins; ink line below text on one page.
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.
Traditional. MOTHER GOOSE or the Old Nursery Rhymes. George Routledge, London, 1881.
Price: US$63.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition, sextodecimo, tan cloth printed with a lattice design, gift inscripion dated Christmas 1881 and other previous ownership dated 1910 both neatly on front free end paper, contents on verso front free end paper, then 48 pages including half title, frontis piece and title page. A lovely copy. [QP]
Seller: Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$67.42 + shipping
Description: Small hardback, 7 x 5 inches. 4to. Grey cloth with maroon lettering (Upside-down ?G?) and green diamond lattice design. Pink cloth spine. Dark green endpapers. In very good condition. Cloth darkened, some minor rubbing to edges and corners. Some darkening/tanning to pages, some minor offsetting to plates. A couple of minor handling marks else clean and tight. 48pp. Colour illustrated half-title and title page, colour illustrations to each page.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$76.81 + shipping
Description: 8°, 48 Seiten, Originalleinenband (gebräunt und fleckig). Leicht gebräunt, erste und letzte Seite etwas stärker, Buchblock leicht gelockert. Insgesamt ordentliches Exemplar.
Seller: Antiquariat Heinz Tessin, Quickborn, Germany
Price: US$79.06 + shipping
Description: Klein-8°. 48 S. mit 48 farbigen Illustrationen. Originalhalbleinwand. Zweiter Druck der Erstausgabe, Deckel mit Gitternetzhintergrund und Deckeltitel mit verkehrtem 'G'. - Einband an den Rändern etwas gebräunt und schwach fleckig. Widmung auf Vorsatz, datiert 1881. Vorsatz, Vortitelblatt und letztes Blatt leicht stockfleckig. 1 Blatt etwas angerändert. Sprache: englisch.
Seller: Daniel Thierstein, Biel, Switzerland
Greenaway, Kate. Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. George Routledge and Sons, New York, 1881.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 16mo. 47 pages. Hardcover quarter bound in green cloth with illustrated paper wrapped boards. Image on the front cover of a woman seating in a chair, facing right and with a small child on her lap. Damp spot on the front cover. Binding is rubbed, has smudges and scuffs. Corners rubbed down to boards. Front hinge is cracking with the muslin exposed. Rear hinge is loose but gutter is whole. Early owner's inscription on front flyleaf reads, "Hanning(?) Leonard, from Aunt Kate Xmas '81." Text is unmarked. The signature is NOT Kate Greenaway's. There is no actual publication date, but the book is hand-dated [18]81. Appears to be the second issue of the First American Edition.
Seller: Pages Past--Used & Rare Books, Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$87.79 + shipping
Description: Schuster & Engen 140 (1d); Thomson 138b. - First edition. - With Mother Goose printed in reverse G to the front-cover, surrounded by olive green latticework design, Contents of this book on verso of front end-paper, m upside down page 25. - The bound original front cover with a four-line dedication: Margareth Ann Lloyd from her Grandfather - December 19 th 1881 . - Almost clean condition, only the cloth binding somewhat stained 48 pages. With 42 full-page color illustrations in text 8°. Colored Illustr. Original pink cloth / Farbillustr. Original-Leinen
Seller: Buch- und Kunst-Antiquariat Flotow GmbH, Ottobrunn, Germany
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second issue ("G" upside down on cover; "Contents of This Book" on verso of front endpaper; Evans's seal on rear endpaper). 16mo (16.7 x 12.3 cm.). 48 pp. Illustrated from line drawings, printed in color. Osborne collection, p. 101. Schuster 107, 1b. A little foxing, but a good solid copy. Original tan decorated cloth (rubbed, spine ends a little frayed), printed in red and green, green endpapers, all edges red (faded). (9676).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Off-white illus. paper over boards, blue cloth at spine; 48 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color. More than forty nursery rhymes, including "Jack and Jill," "Jack Sprat," "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son," and more, wonderfully illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Fair (Moderate wear to boards and cloth. Hinges cracked. Binding loose but holding. Some scattered darknening and foxing but overall still rather clean. Gift inscription at ffep, looks like the date is 1881.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Kate Greenaway. Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. George Routledge & Sons, London, 1881.
Price: US$120.84 + shipping
Description: A charmingly illustrated collection of nursery rhymes from Kate Greenaway and Edmund Evans. With colour illustrations to each page. The familiar figure of Mother Goose is an imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes which are often published as Mother Goose Rhymes. As a character, she appears in one rhyme, and is generally depicted as an elderly country woman in a tall hat and shawl, a costume identical to the peasant costume worn in Wales in the early 20th century. Collected and illustrated by Kate (Catherine) Greenaway, an English Victorian artist and writer known for her book illustrations. Printed by Edmund Evans, an English wood-engraver and colour printer of the Victorian era. Rebacked with the original brown cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and rubbing to the extremities. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the boards. Internally, generally firmly bound with the odd page loosening. Pages are bright with the odd handling mark or spot. The odd small closed tear or crease to the extremities. Sympathetic repairs made with tape between pages 32 and 33, 46 and 47, as well as 48 to the endpaper. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper dated 1881. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 16mo (6 3/4" x 5"), cream boards with pink spine and light olive cross-hatching--in a lattice pattern--and brown title on covers, illustrated throughout with 42 pictures in color by Kate Greenaway with nursery rhymes beneath, engraved by Edmund Evans, olive endpapers, 48 pages + [2] Colophon. Catherine "Kate" Greenaway (1846 - 1901) was an esteemed English Victorian artist and writer, known for her charming and much loved children's book illustrations. Her depictions of lovely children in imaginary 18th-century costumes in a Queen Anne style were extremely popular in England and internationally, sparking the Kate Greenaway style. SCARCE title made doubly so by its Very Good Condition. Early printing with "G" upside down on covers. Tight copy with light-to-moderate age-toning and moderate soil. Colors of covers have darkened with time. Greenaway pictures are quiet clean and bright. Schuster & Engen 140 (1d); Thomson 138b.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$127.20 + shipping
Description: First edition second issue, US first edition, small 8vo. (175x128mm), 48pp., with full-page coloured illustrations in text with verse beneath within border, seal of Edmund Evans on recto of rear endpaper, olive green endpapers, internally very good, in original white cloth with pink cloth spine, boards with 'Mother Goose' in brown within olive green latticewok design, boards & spine browned and spotted, however sound, tight & very good condition. "The second issue has "Contents of this Book" on verso of front endpaper, "bush" in last line of p. 18; page number right side up on p. 38, "boys" in last line of p. 47, and no defective letters in the last line of p. 6, in the first line of p.27 the word mine without dot on the i."
Seller: Offa's Dyke Books, LUDLOW, SALOP, United Kingdom
Price: US$131.68 + shipping
Description: Kl.-8°. - 17,3:12 cm. 48 Seiten mit vielen Farbholzst. von Edm. Evans nach Kate Greenaway. Farbig illustr. Orig.-Halbleinenband. - Stellenweise minimal fleckig oder ganz schwach gebräunt. die Bilder teils mit schwachem Abklatsch. Einband etwas fingerfleckig, Kanten leicht bestoßen. Innengelenke ganz leicht brüchig. - Insgesamt hübsches Exemplar. Zweiter Druck der Erstausgabe, mit dem Inhaltsverzeichnis auf dem vord. Vorsatz verso und dem Druckvermerk "Engraved. by Edmund Evans" auf dem hinteren Vorsatz recto. - Extra
Seller: Antiquariat C. Dorothea Müller, München, Germany
Kate Greenaway. Mother Goose or The Old Nursery Rhymes. George Routledge, London, 1881.
Price: US$152.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Mother Goose, or The Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans of London and New York. Published by George Routledge and Sons in 1881. A First Edition, second printing, as identified by the list of contents on the reverse of the ffep and the upside down G on the front cover (hard to make out) also on the back of the cover and within the text. Also by the irregular printing of numbers such as page number 38. Size: 5 x 6 3/4 inches. Page number: 45 full-page images plus coloured half title page and frontispiece. Hardcover. Cream boards with green lattice work covers, brown lettering and dark green end papers. Condition: Very Good. The boards are darkened and a little marked. The lettering on the front has faded. The pages within are occasionally marked but generally clean. Some slight offsetting images from one side of the page to the other. A previous owners name is written in ink on the second end paper. There is a little loosening of the stitching that holds the book together at one point but the biding remains sound. .
Seller: Bluebird Books, Brecon, POWYS, United Kingdom
Price: US$152.64 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A collection of Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes with colour illustrations to each page by Kate Greenaway. The familiar figure of Mother Goose is an imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes which are often published as Mother Goose Rhymes. As a character, she appears in one "nursery rhyme". Mother Goose is generally depicted in literature and book illustration as an elderly country woman in a tall hat and shawl, a costume identical to the peasant costume worn in Wales in the early 20th century, but is sometimes depicted as a goose (usually wearing a bonnet). Catherine Greenaway (1846 - 1901), known as Kate Greenaway, was an English children's book illustrator and writer. She studied at what is now the Royal College of Art in London, which at that time had a separate section for women, and was headed by Richard Burchett. Her first book, Under the Window (1879), a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses about children, was a bestseller. Greenaway's paintings were reproduced by chromoxylography, by which the colours were printed from hand-engraved wood blocks by the firm of Edmund Evans. Through the 1880s and 1890s, her only rivals in popularity in children's book illustration were Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott. With bookseller's label to front pastedown and with an ink inscription dated 1881 to front free endpaper. Rebacked in a cloth binding with original buckram boards. Externally, with slight wear to extremities and marks to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Bright but with handling marks to pages and the odd slight marginal tidemark. With previous repairs to some pages where there has been slight loss and closed tears. With previous owner's initial ink stamp to rear endpaper. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Illustrated By Kate Greenaway. Mother Goose Or The Old Nursery Rhymes. George Routledge, 1881.
Price: US$152.64 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: George Routledge & Sons. 1881, 1881. Very good condition with no dust wrapper.1st ed edition. 2nd issue of 1st edition. Pink cloth spine. Green lattice to cream cloth covers. Upside Down 'G' to Goose on front cover. Olive green endpapers. Covers have faded from pink to a more cream colour. A few marks/foxing to covers. No Inscriptions but libris sticker on inside cover . Some marks to endpapers and to some page margins internally. Illustrations are still bright. highly Collectable and rare
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Kate Greenaway. Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. George Routledge & Sons, London, 1881.
Price: US$164.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Another very scarce first edition book by Kate Greenaway illusrated through out with charming pictures of children in Regency clothes for each rhyme.
Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
Price: US$197.52 + shipping
Description: Legatura editoriale in mz. tela (scurita). Pagine leggermente brunite, ma buon esemplare. Prima edizione, seconda tiratura. 16mo (cm. 17), 48 pp. interamente illustrate a colori.
Seller: Libreria Ex Libris ALAI-ILAB/LILA member, Roma, Italy
Price: US$197.52 + shipping
Description: US First Edition of Kate Greenaway's "Mother Goose". 48 pp. With full-page color illustrations in the text. The second issue has "Contents of this Book" on verso of front endpaper; seal of Edmund Evans on recto of rear endpaper; "bush" in last line of p. 18; page number right side up on p. 38; "boys" in last line of p. 47; and no defective letters in the last line of p. 6; in the first line of p. 27 the word mine without dot on the i. Original white cloth with pink cloth spine. Covers with "Mother Goose" printed in brown ("G" upside down) surrounded by olive green latticework design. Cover and leafs stained. Olive green endpapers. Small octavo. Originaleinband (Lattice edition) mit dem auf Kopf stehenden G in Mother Goose, Grüne Papiervorsätze mit dem Inhaltsverzeichnis auf der Innenseite des vorderen Vorsatzblattes und dem Rundstempel von Edmund Evans auf der Innenseite des hinteren Papiernachsatzes, 48 Seiten mit gebräuntem und z.T. etwas stockfleckigem Papier, 12,8 x 17,2 cm.
Seller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist, Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany
Price: US$222.60 + shipping
Description: First edition, second issue, so-called "lattice" binding with the inverted G in Goose and with the Contents Page on the verso of front free endpaper. Small octavo. 48 pages. 48 full-page colour illustrations, including frontispiece and title-page, by Kate Greenaway. Olive-green endpapers. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Comprises some of Greenaway's finest work. Corners slightly bruised. On the front the cloth is a bit bubbled and has an old and faint inkstain. On the back the cloth is faintly marked. Very good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Greenaway, Kate. First edition, second issue. With full-page color illustrations in text. 48 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Schuster & Engen 140 (1d); Thomson 138b Original pink cloth shelfback, cream cloth boards patterned in olive, small bookseller ticket on lower pastedown. Spine rubbed, covers soiled and toned, some toning of text block. Gift inscription on flyleaf dated Nov 1881. A good copy With full-page color illustrations in text. 48 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Faded ivory cloth with green decoration and red lettering. Cover is worn and faded and a bit splotchy. Binding tight, though. Green endpapers. Original ownership gift inscription dated Xmas 1881 (non-authorial). No date on the title page. 48 pages. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans using his distinctive color method. Greenaway's charming and colorful plates on ever page, each within green border. The pages are faded from age and many have smudges and thumbing on the borders. Binding tight. Early bookseller note in pencil on the table of contents page notes that it is 1st printing, 2nd issue, printed in 1881, with an extra plate. The extra plate is a cutout of Humpty Dumpty (page 37) pasted to a stiff black card. Beneath the plate is a cut signature of Kate Greenaway in pencil, pasted on the same card. Please email with questions or to request photos.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$445.21 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 48pp,[i], inc. Half-title, frontis, tile-page and dedication page to Lily and Eddie. Illustrated throughout with attractive coloured drawings by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans. Orig. green cloth backed cream glazed boards with green trellis work and picture panel. Pink cloth spine. A LOVELY COPY with a contemporary inscription dated 1884. Kate Greenaway 1846-1901. Engraved and printed at the Raquet Court by Edmund Evans. 17cms. [Reverse 'G' to the title-page, 'm' upside down p25. and 'lattice design to the boards. Size: 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$526.73 + shipping
Description: 172x128mm, 48pp. , pleine toile blanche de l'éditeur, dos en toile rose, titre imprimé en brun en couverture, tranches roses, jaquette en papier imprimée. Gravé et imprimé par Edmund Evans à Londres qui a apposé son tampon au verso de la deuxième page de garde. Première édition et deuxième tirage (Lattice Edition), dans un état excellent, complet de la très rare jaquette en papier (petits défauts). Détails : le « G » est à l'envers sur la couverture, la table « Contents of this Book » se trouve au verso de la première page de garde ;"bush" à la dernière ligne page 18 ; numéro de la page 38 dans le bon sens; "boys" à la dernière ligne page 47. Schuster & Engen 140 (1b). Thomson 138c. Satisfaisant Couverture rigide Livre
Seller: Chloé et Denis Ozanne, Paris, France
Greenaway, Kate. Mother Goose. London & New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1881.
Price: US$534.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition, second issue ('G' in Goose upside down on upper cover, 'm' upside down on page 25) in a very good un-restored condition, lattice patterned boards, cloth spine, green end papers, light foxing to first and last leaves, in scarce dust jacket minimal peripheral wear
Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Greenaway, Kate. Mother Goose, or the Nursery Rhymes. George Routledge and Sons, 1881.
Price: US$572.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second issue. First edition, second issue. In extremely rare original tan paper dust wrapper printer with lettering and pictorial illustration by Greenaway. Original lattice patterned decorated beige cloth with cross-hatched green decorative covers, lettering and emblem in red brown on both covers. Olive green endpapers. 48pp. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans with colour sepia illustrations by Kate Greenaway every page. Collated and complete. Wrapper very good with a small 5mm tear to edged, slightly dusted. Endpapers a little darked discoloured.Some light off setting from the colour engravings as usual. Inside very clean but due to a production fault, two pages have not been bound in and are slightly raised, the raised edges are discoloured/ dirt. Otherwise the book is in near fine, hinges unbroken. Scarce thus. Size 6 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 168 x 123 mm.
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$610.57 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Not dated. A neat inscription is dated 1881.Bound in Original pictorial cloth covered boards, with slight spotting. 48 pp. With many full-page color illustrations in the text. Original white cloth with pink cloth spine. Covers with "Mother Goose" printed in brown ("G" upside down) surrounded by olive green latticework design. Forty-six coloured illustrations with rhymes underneath.Title page browned, some slight offsetting throughout the book. The pink /brown dust wrapper is very good but split along fold of spine, minor foxing to the prelims, else very good. With slip case with leather lettered spine and marbled boards. A very good copy. Size 6 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 168 x 123 mm.
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Greenaway, Kate. Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes.. , 1881.
Price: US$913.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Children's book by Kate Greenaway, George Routledge and Sons, London, 1881. First edition, second issue (Lattice edition with inverted G), hardcover, with its very rare dust jacket (damaged). Small 8vo, 48pp, 46 col. ill. With index on verso of front end paper and engravers seal on recto. Dust jacket missing its 'spine', edges chipped, covers toned, pages toned. Condition: Dust jacket missing its 'spine', edges chipped, covers toned, pages toned. Size 130mm x 172mm (5.2" x 6.9")
Seller: Antique Print & Map Room, Ultimo, NSW, Australia
Greenaway,Kate. Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. George Routledge and Sons, London, 1881.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Overall, a handsome copy in its original and very scarce DJ. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. First edition, second state ("Lattice Edition"). Meets all the points of issue found in Schuster & Engen 140 (1b) (e.g. seal of the engraver at rfep (recto), bush at end of p18, etc). Boards printed in brown (lettering, inverted "G") and green (lattice). Uncommon generally, quite scarce in its salmon dust wrapper printed in red. Minor shelf/edge wear, touch of toning to text block, presentation inscription at ffep (1881), else tight and bright. DJ shows even toning, light shelf/edge wear, several small chips and light creasing, else clean. Pink cloth spine, printed paper boards, olive endpages, frontispiece, pink stain at textblock edges. Small 8vo. 48pp. Illus. (color plates).
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: One of the Books That Relieved John Ruskin's Depression Rare in Dust Jacket [GREENAWAY, Kate]. FOSTER, Myles B. A Day in a Child's Life. Music by Myles B. Foster. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans. London: [n.d., 1881]. First edition. Quarto (9 11/16 x 8 1/4 in; 246 x 209 mm). Color-printed wood-engraved text illustrations, most accompanied with musical notations. Publisher's gray glazed pictorial boards, beveled edges with green cloth backstrip, light green coated endpapers, all edges stained blue. Minimal soiling and rubbing to board edges and corners only, small split to front inner hinge,otherwise an exceptionally clean and near fine copy. In the publisher's printed dust jacket with most of spine missing and small piece missing from front panel not affecting text or image. Thomson variant 31d with trellis-like border and garland of roses surrounding two seated girls. ".By Christmas, Ruskin had recovered and was ready to advise her. Although he was still depressed by his uncontrollable health.his depression was somewhat relieved by Kate's latest books. which rekindled his interest in her ability to depict children and reminded him of his departed beloved [little Rose La Touche]. Mother Goose had a title-page drawing of a baby lying in a basket of roses. A Day in a Child's Life was even more evocative, with its rose wreath half-title page; a blonde girl lying in bed, so reminiscent of a child Rose on her sick bed; and young girls in white frocks dancing over a hillside to 'A Romp' - so like his Winnington Hall frolics" (Engen p.81). Schuster & Engen 66. Thomson 31a. Engen, Kate Greenaway. A Biography.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: (Greenaway, Kate) illustrator. MOTHER GOOSE OR THE OLD NURSERY RHYMES. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, [1881]. First edition, first issue [Schuster 140-1aa]. 12mo - 5-1/16" x 6-7/8". Color pictorial turquoise cloth covered boards with black lettering with gilt highlights to both drawing and title, are bright and fresh and this is truly a superior copy of the book. There is a hint of wear at the corners and also at the head and tail of the spine, additionally, the spine is a bit sun faded but these points in no way detract from the overall lovely quality of this copy of the book. Plain blue glazed endpapers. 48 pp. This collection of nursery rhymes is illustrated on every page with full color drawings by Kate Greenaway, which have been engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE.
Seller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: One of the Books That Relieved John Ruskin's Depression Rare in Dust Jacket GREENAWAY, Kate. FOSTER, Myles B. A Day in a Child's Life. Music by Myles B. Foster. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans. London: [n.d., 1881]. First edition. Quarto (9 9/16 x 8 1/4 in; 243 x 208 mm). 29, [1, printer's slug] pp. Color-printed wood-engraved text illustrations, most accompanied with musical notations. Publisher's light green glazed pictorial boards, beveled edges with green cloth backstrip, light green coated endpapers, all edges stained green. In the publisher's printed dust jacket with some acid-free tape strengthening on the verso and a small (1 1/4 inch) piece chipped away from top of spine and one small chip (5/8 x 1/2 inch) on front panel not affecting text or image. Housed in a black cloth clamshell case, spine lettered in gilt. A very good copy. Thomson variant 31a with border of six narrow brown rules alternating with five yellow rules; inside border at each corner containing a yellow sunflower. ".By Christmas, Ruskin had recovered and was ready to advise her. Although he was still depressed by his uncontrollable health.his depression was somewhat relieved by Kate's latest books. which rekindled his interest in her ability to depict children and reminded him of his departed beloved [little Rose La Touche]. Mother Goose had a title-page drawing of a baby lying in a basket of roses. A Day in a Child's Life was even more evocative, with its rose wreath half-title page; a blonde girl lying in bed, so reminiscent of a child Rose on her sick bed; and young girls in white frocks dancing over a hillside to 'A Romp' - so like his Winnington Hall frolics" (Engen p.81). Schuster & Engen 66; Thomson 31d; Engen, Kate Greenaway. A Biography.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Greenaway, Kate. First edition, second issue. With full-page color illustrations in text. 48, [1] pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. WITH PENCIL DRAWING BY GREENAWAY. With an original pencil drawing of a rose by Greenaway laid down on the colophon page (2 x 1-3/4 inches). Schuster & Engen 140 (1d); Thomson 138b Original pink cloth shelfback, cream cloth boards patterned in olive, some spotting, but very good. Booklabel of Paul E. Bechet With full-page color illustrations in text. 48, [1] pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second issue. In extremely rare original tan paper dust wrapper printer with lettering and pictorial illustration by Greenaway. Original lattice patterned decorated beige cloth with cross-hatched green decorative covers, lettering and emblem in red brown on both covers. Olive green endpapers. 48pp. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans with color sepia illustrations by Kate Greenaway every page. Wrapper very good with minor chips to corners, some darkening. Book near fine with usual slight soiling to covers, internally clean and bright. Hinges unbroken. Scarce thus.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.