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Lot Is Closed GREENAWAY, KATE [illustrator] - Mother Goose
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GREENAWAY, KATE [illustrator] - Mother Goose
Estimate:
$150 - $300
Sold
$100
Timed Auction
169: Rare Books
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GREENAWAY, KATE [illustrator]
Mother Goose
or the Old Nursery Rhymes. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. London, George Routledge & Sons, ND inscription dated 1881, first edition. 48 pages. 48 full-page colour illustrations, including frontispiece and titlepage, by Kate Greenaway, a little toning, but overall contents clean and VG. 175mm bound in cloth with so-called "lattice" binding with the inverted G in Goose and with the contents page on the verso of front free endpaper, olive-green endpapers. Inscription dated 1818 on endpaper. Comprises some of Greenaway's finest work.
Provinces: Major Robert A. Wilson, Lethenty, Bulls.