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GREENAWAY (KATE) Kate Greenaway's Album: 192 Pictures in Gold Frames, Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans, ONE OF ONLY EIGHT COPIES PRINTED, (3) image 1
GREENAWAY (KATE) Kate Greenaway's Album: 192 Pictures in Gold Frames, Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans, ONE OF ONLY EIGHT COPIES PRINTED, (3) image 2
GREENAWAY (KATE) Kate Greenaway's Album: 192 Pictures in Gold Frames, Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans, ONE OF ONLY EIGHT COPIES PRINTED, (3) image 3
Kate Greenaway: the Private Collection of the late Thomas Schuster
Lot 187

GREENAWAY (KATE)
Kate Greenaway's Album: 192 Pictures in Gold Frames, Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans, ONE OF ONLY EIGHT COPIES PRINTED (3)

23 March 2022, 14:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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GREENAWAY (KATE)

Kate Greenaway's Album: 192 Pictures in Gold Frames, Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans, ONE OF ONLY EIGHT COPIES PRINTED, THE HOUGHTON COPY, 24 leaves of 192 colour illustrations within gold frames, front free endpaper and first 2 leaves slightly spotted, original green pictorial printed boards, extremities very lightly rubbed, cloth chemise and pull-off morocco box [Schuster & Engen 2 (1d)], 24mo (91 x 85mm.), George Routledge, [1885]; Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book for Children, 12 coloured plates and other illustrations, publisher's blue morocco gilt with design of child blowing bubbles on upper cover, spine gilt in compartments, g.e. [cf. Schuster & Engen 39 (3d)], 24mo, George Routledge, [1880]; The Illustrated Children's Birthday-Book, 12 coloured plates and other illustrations, publisher's green morocco gilt, gilt lettered on upper cover, spine ends slightly rubbed, upper hinge cracking [cf. Schuster & Engen 99 (1j)], 24mo, W. Mack, [1880], preserved together in morocco-backed solander box (3)

Footnotes

THE HOUGHTON COPY of a legendary Greenaway rarity, with tipped-in letter signed by E. Wilfred Evans of Edmund Evans Ltd., dated 5 May 1910, to Maggs Bros. confirming that "there were only eight (8) copies printed of the Kate Greenaway Album."

Greenaway originally prepared these drawings as tiny vignettes for her 1880 Birthday Book for Children, a copy of which is included in the lot. "Edmund Evans apparently suggested that these miniature illustrations would make an interesting album so the book was produced but never published" (Schuster & Engen). This copy appears to be the one described and illustrated within the Morgan Library catalogue, Early Children's Books and their Illustration (no. 179, 1975).

Provenance: Arthur A. Houghton Jr. (1906-1990), booklabel; Christie's, 14 June 1979, lot 238; Sotheby's, 10 July 2003, lot 368.

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