Kate Greenaway's Almanack For 1891
by Greenaway, Kate
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Orig. white leather lettered and decorated in gilt. Aeg. Near fine
- Seller
-
ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1890. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. white leather lettered and decorated in gilt. Aeg. Near fine. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me. GORDON N. RAY, p.157. Bright, clean copy. Front cover depicts young lady holding an infant in her arms with two young children at either side within a floral leaf border.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17597
- Title
- Kate Greenaway's Almanack For 1891
- Author
- Greenaway, Kate
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. white leather lettered and decorated in gilt. Aeg. Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- Children's Books
Terms of Sale
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All books returnable 10 days of invoice date with prior notification
About the Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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ardsley, New York
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...