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Lot 166
Sale 1241 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
Nov 10, 2023
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[CHILDREN'S BOOK] -- [GREENAWAY, Kate]. SPIELMANN, Marion Harry (1858-1948) and George Somes LAYARD (1857-1925). Kate Greenaway. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905.
4to. Color-printed frontispiece and 53 plates after Greenaway, and numerous other illustrations and facsimiles after Greenaway and others. (Some intermittent pale spotting to outer margins.) Original cream cloth gilt (spine slightly darkened, slight wear to extremities, hinges starting).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 236 of 500 copies, SIGNED BY JOHN GREENAWAY, the artist's brother. WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY KATE GREENAWAY in pencil captioned "Nimble Dick" tipped into window mount as issued. The exhaustive reference work on Greenaway. Schuster & Engen 226, 1a.