first edition Hardcover
1894 · London
by Greenaway, Kate
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated and illustrated cream boards. Very good. 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. Gilt front cover illustration of a child. Backstrip nicks, small front cover spot. lacks free front endpaper.
(Inventory #: 24575)