Greenaway, Kate. Complete Set of Almanacks

London: George Routledge and Sons, etc., 1883-1929. Complete set in 26 volumes (see list below). 24mo or smaller (some oblong). With color illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Publisher's various pictorial boards; scattered wear and soiling; scattered ownership or gift inscriptions; 1897 issue with pencil annotations at rear; first series (1883-97) in tan morocco and cloth case and two chemises. Schuster & Engen 3-22

The above includes an unrecorded variant for 1894, printed with illustrations only; bound in floral-patterned cloth over boards.

Comprising: 1883 (two copies: Schuster & Engen 3.1a, 3.1d); 1884 (2 copies: 4.2a, 4.2e); 1885 (2 copies: 5.3a, 5.3c); 1886 (6.4a); 1887 (2 copies: 7.5a, 7.5b); 1888 (8.6e, with original dust-jacket); 1889 (9.7c); 1890 (10.8a, with original dust-jacket); 1891 (11.9a); 1892 (2 copies: one unrecorded variant with first French edition blue cloth spine and turquoise endpapers; unrecorded variant in stiff paper wrappers with hand-painted floral design, gilt lettering, bound with silk tie); 1893 (13.11b, in original dust-jacket); 1894 (14.12d); 1895 (15.13a); 1896 (none issued); 1897 (16.14a); 1924 (17.15a, in glassine); 1925 (18.16a, in glassine); 1926 (19.17a, in glassine); 1927 (20.18a, without glassine); 1928 (21.19a, but with white edges, in glassine); 1929 (22.20a, in glassine).

Lot includes Kate Greenaway's Alphabet (Schuster & Engen 23.1c, but with only top edge in green-turquoise).

A beautifully presented and lovely collection of Greenaway's signature almanacs.

Provenance

From the collection of Justin G. Schiller

Greenaway, Kate. Complete Set of Almanacks