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[GREENAWAY, KATE] Painting Book, AFirst Edition, The Color Issue GREENAWAY, Kate. A Painting Book. With Outlines from her Various Works for Girls & Boys to Paint. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1884]. First edition in wrappers, issued simultaneously with the cloth binding issue. Octavo (9 1/2 x 6 7/8 in; 242 x 178 mm). 80, [2, blank] pp. Color frontispiece and title page. Numerous sepia and white illustrations. Pale straw glazed color-pictorial wrappers with green borders outlined in black, and George Routledge & Sons Limited within lower border. Advertisement on rear panel listing illustration sources. The mildest of soiling, a tiny chip at spine head, and two inch wrapper split at spine tail, otherwise a very attractive copy. "Kate's publishers continued to exploit her popularity, and at the end of 1884 several gift books had appeared for the Christmas trade. [Renowned color printer] Evans and Routledge chose a selection of line blocks from previous successes to make the Kate Greenaway Painting Book, and printed 40,000 copies" (Engen), despite which few of this, the first edition in wrappers, have survived in collectable condition. Schuster and Engen 149.1b.
Offered for US$ 500.00 by: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) - Book number: 01403