[Rarebooks] FS: Kate Greenaway Book and Drawing

[Clare Murphy]

1.  LAYARD, G. S. AND SPIELMANN, M. H.  KATE GREENAWAY WITH ORIGINAL 
PENCIL SKETCH. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. Illustrated by 
an original pencil sketch of two little girls dancing and a color 
frontispiece and fifty-three color plates after Kate Greenaway, with 
identifying tissue guards, and many black and white illustrations, 
including thirty-four half-tone plates. de Luxe edition. #336/500 
copies. Original white vellum-like cloth decorated with blindstamped 
rules around abstract florals and gilt lettering. End papers are 
embellished with illustrations in color from a wallpaper design by 
Kate Greenaway. Signed by her brother, John Greenaway twice. Large 
quarto (10 1/2 x 8 1/8 inches. [xix, [1], 300, [1], [3, blank] pgs.] 
Very good. Very nice copy with the following defects: evenly 
sun-darkened spine and slight soiling to boards. Foxing to edges and 
prelims, including the original drawing. Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) 
died in November 1901, at a time when her illustrations were out of 
favor. Her brother sought to restore her popularity, after her death, 
by an exhibition of her work and then by this beautiful work. Thomson 
400.  $2300.00 {73269}

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