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Kate Greenaway: the Private Collection of the late Thomas Schuster
Lot 181

GREENAWAY (KATE)
Almanack for 1883-[1895], 1897, 1924-1929, a complete set, together 20 vol., Routledge, Dent or Warne, [1882-1894], [1896] and [1923-1928]

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London, Knightsbridge

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GREENAWAY (KATE)

Almanack for 1883-[1895], 1897, 1924-1929, a complete set, together 20 vol., first editions, colour illustrations by Kate Greenaway, some spotting and browning, occasional finger soiling, 1884 with embossed stamp to endpaper, 1891 with slight loss to front free endpaper, bookplates in 1889 and 1894, various publisher's bindings, 2 t.e.g., others with coloured edges, some bindings soiled and chipped, glassine chipped and torn, preserved together in 2 uniform purpose-made morocco-backed boxes [Schuster & Engen 3-22], 12mo & oblong 12mo, Routledge, Dent or Warne, [1882-1894], [1896] and [1923-1928]

Footnotes

Comprising: 1883 [Schuster & Engen 3.1a], 1884 [4.2a], 1885 [5.3a], 1886 [6.4a], 1887 [7.5a], 1888 [8.6a], 1889 [9.7a], 1890 [10.8a], 1891 [11.9a], 1892 [12.10a], 1893 [13.11b, WITH ORIGINAL PINK PAPER MAILING WRAPPER, upper flap pasted down], 1894 [14, unlisted variant with pink cloth spine], 1895 [15.13a], 1897 [16.14a, WITH GLASSINE DUST-JACKET], 1924 [17.15a, glassine wrapper], 1925 [18.16a, glassine wrapper], 1926 [19.17a], 1927 [20.18a, glassine wrapper], 1928 [21.19a, glassine wrapper], 1929 [22.20a].

Provenance: Captain Kenneth John Douglas-Morris (1919-1993), invoice for both groups from Sangorski & Sutcliffe loosely inserted, dated 17 January 1980; Sotheby's, 16 December 2004, lot 316.

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