Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes
New York: George Routledge and Sons [1881], 1881. First author's edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [4], 5-48 pp. Quarter blue cloth over tan pictorial paper boards printed in brown, green, white, orange, and yellow; all edges red. Coated green endpapers and pastedowns. Each page with a color illustration done by Greenaway. As originally engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Author's edition. Schuster and Engen 140-2a). Thomson 139. This is the author's edition, according to the bibliographers, released after the first trade edition. Good. Item #000015341
A chip to the cloth on the spine, soiling to the boards, a crack to the gutter but the binding is holding.
Price: $60.00