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Greenaway, Kate. Under the Window. George Routledge and Sons, London, 1878.
Price: US$895.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original quarter green cloth over pictorial boards, (9.5 x 7.5 inches). No Date [1878]. [4], 64 pages; illustrated in color. True First Edition/First Printing, with "End of Contents" on page 14 and the three illustrations on pages 21, 35 and 63 which were omitted in later printings. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans. INSCRIBED by author on front endpage, "Dear Willy, with Katie's Love. Oct. 1st, 1879." This is the book that made Greenaway famous, advancing her career to become one of the most influential women artists of her age. A binding a bit shaken as typical, showing general wear and rubbing to exterior, internally clean and bright. Size: Small Quarto
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Kate Greenaway. Under the Window (inscribed by author Greenaway). George Routledge, 1878.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Under the Window" by Kate Greenaway. George Routledge, 1878 first UK edition. Signed by Greenaway on the half-title, ownership stamp of her brother Alfred on front free endpaper, first and last few leaves lightly foxed, publisher's pictorial boards, corners rubbed
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$8750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Greenaway, Kate. TWO ORIGINAL GRAPHITE, INK AND WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS BY KATE GREENAWAY PUBLISHED IN HER BOOK "UNDER THE WINDOW". London: George Routledge & Sons, [1878]. Two beautiful watercolor drawings, each measuring approximately 7-1/2" x 9" (5-1/2" x 7-5/8" sight) and matted to 11" x 14"; both drawings signed "K.G." to left of drawing. The first drawing features five small children walking down a village road, and illustrates the poem beginning "You are going out to tea to-day, So mind how you behave; Let all accounts I have of you Be pleasant ones, I crave." from p. 31 of the first edition of the book. The second drawing features a young lady walking across the tiled rooftops of an unnamed town, and illustrates the poem beginning "What is the way to Somewhere Town? Oh, up in the morning early; Over the tiles and the chimney-pots, That is the way, quite clearly." from p. 38 of the same. The condition of the first drawing is NEAR FINE with two short closed tears to bottom margin and a chip to bottom left corner, all confined to the margins and under the mat. The condition of the second drawing is FINE. Sold with a FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE [Schuster & Engen 201: 1) a] copy of "Greenaway, Kate. Under the Window. Pictures and Rhymes for Children. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1878]" in FINE condition where both of the drawings were originally published. This is a wonderful and unique offering of two large-scale, original watercolor drawings by Kate Greenaway that were published in the first book that she both wrote and illustrated, the work that would firmly establish her reputation as one of the preeminent children's book illustrators of the Victorian era, along with a FINE copy of that book.
Seller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.