Kate Greenaway
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xix, [1], 1-300, [6] pp. Three-quarter twentieth-century morocco over decorative patterned cloth, boards ruled in gold, spine in six compartments with gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, and with several color and black and white plates, also with in-text figures in black and white. Color plates engraved by the Menpes press. Frohnsdorff 213-215. Schuster and Engen 2261c. A limited edition and a British edition were done before the American trade edition. The American edition was issued in cloth, this is a finely done rebind. A lovely biography of the beloved artist and book illustrator. Near Fine. Item #000015297
A later inscription on the first blank leaf.
Price: $250.00