KATE GREENAWAY'S MALBUCH FUR DAS KLEINE VOLK. ( The Little Folks' Painting Book ). by GREENAWAY, KATE.:

Munich, Theo. Stroefer's Kunstverlag, (1880).. SECOND GERMAN EDITION circa 1880, 4to, 242 x 192 mm, 9½ x 7½ inches, light blue pictorial boards, printed black, girl sitting under a tree and floral decorations to upper cover, 2 children watch 2 herons feeding on lower cover, pages: 100 + 3 - adverts. Five designs depicting children on frontispiece very prettily hand-coloured as issued, 112 line drawings for children to colour all by Greenaway. Stories and rhymes by George Weatherly translated into German by Fanny Stockhausen. Spine slightly darkened, 3 mm (1/8") missing at head and tail of spine, 5 mm (¼") surface paper missing on lower corner of upper cover, lower corner of lower cover slightly bumped, endpapers slightly browned, NO OUTLINES COLOURED IN, UNUSED. A very good copy. First published by Cassell in 1879 as The 'Little Folks' Painting Book. Schuster 116, 6a with variant board colour. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.