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Kate Greenaway | First Editions
1846 - 1901
Catherine "Kate" Greenaway (17 March 1846 – 6 November 1901) was an English children's book illustrator and writer. As well as illustrating books, Greenaway produced a number of bookplates in her lifetime.Her first book, Under the Window (1879) was a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses about children, and was a best-seller. Her legacy lives on through the 'Kate Greenaway Medal', established in her honour in 1955; the prize is awarded annually by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the UK, to an illustrator of children's books deemed worthy.
See below our stock of Kate Greenaway First Editions, fine bindings, and signed copies.
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Mother Goose, or the Old Nursery Rhymes.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1915]. [Children's Illustrated] VINTAGE EDITION with fine colour illustrations. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.52. With fine coloured illustrations by the author, printed by Evans at Rose Place, London. Publisher's green cloth to spine, titled in brown, with glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards..... More
Almanack for 1895.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1895. ORIGINAL ALMANACK. (8 x 10cm), with frontispiece, pictorial title, twelve illustrations with inset text, and four further illustrations depicting the seasons. Includes two pages on the subject of postage in the UK towards rear of text. Neatly bound in publisher's cream cloth with illustrations..... More
Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.64. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with green cloth spine and green endpapers. Black..... More
Kate Greenaway.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[xx]; 301; [2], advertisements. Illustrated with numerous photos, plates and in-text line drawings, including several in colour. Bound in early quarter brown calf over blue cloth sides with red morocco title label to spine, ruled in gilt..... More
Tom: Seven Years Old.
London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1876. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2] 245 [9]. With a chromolithographic frontispiece and decorated title page, as well as four further illustrated plates by Greenaway. Publisher's green cloth with gilt and black decoration to spine and upper. New rear endpaper..... More
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