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Book Condition: Used
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

United States
About Item: London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd.,. Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book in a Fine Morocco Binding GREENAWAY, Kate. Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book. With verses by Mrs. Sale Barker. London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., [n.d.]. Later edition. Small square octavo (3 5/8 x 3 3/4 inches; 92 x 95 mm.). [iv], 128, [6] pp. Colored frontispiece, eleven full page color illustrations and numerous plain drawings in the text. Bound ca. 1960 in full red crushed levant morocco, covers ruled in gilt, smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt board-edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in the original fleece-lined, red cloth slipcase. Minimal fading to spine, otherwise very fine. This lovely little book is in almanac form with blank lined pages opposite most of the illustrations. "Throughout the autumn [0f 1880] Ruskin toured the continent, with Kate still on his mind ...He returned to find her Birthday Book awaiting his criticism and wrote… Read More
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