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Kate Greenaway's alphabet

Name: Kate Greenaway's alphabet
Author: Kate Greenaway

Book Description

16mo (67 x 60mm), colour printed frontispiece and title page vignette, 26 col. illustrations engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Osborne I.95, n. I.130; Thomson 68a.

Dealer Notes

The letter illustrations of Kate Greenaway's Alphabet first appeared as brown printed line-drawings in W.F. Mavor's 'The English spelling-book', colour wood engravings of the drawings were consequently used for the 'Alphabet' and the 'Almanacks' of 1889 and 1895. (Osborne coll.)

Author Kate Greenaway

Date n.d. [1885?]

Binding colour printed glazed card covers, identical design front and back

Publisher London: Routledge & Son

Illustrator Kate Greenaway (1846-1901)

Condition fine

Pages unpaginated, pp. [32]

Price: £55.00

Offered by Christian F Verbeke Rare Books

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