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Kate Greenaway: the Private Collection of the late Thomas Schuster
Lot 191
GREENAWAY - PRINTING BLOCKS A key block and 5 colour blocks for 'Marigold Garden', [c.1885]
23 March 2022, 14:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £255 inc. premium
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GREENAWAY - PRINTING BLOCKS
A key block and 5 colour blocks for 'Marigold Garden', engraved by Edmund Evans for the illustration of three children on a bridge on p.54, key block with metal type attached, the pink block split down centre and lacking a small blank section of corner, key block 170 x 135mm., the others smaller, contained in large morocco-backed solander box together with mounted copies of title page and p.54, spine soiled, oblong folio, [c.1885]
Footnotes
Evans used a woodblock printing technique known as chromoxylography, which was used primarily for inexpensive children's books requiring few colours. However, chromoxylography allowed a variety of hues and tones to be produced by mixing colours and Evans would at times us as many as a dozen blocks for one image. Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton holds a set of blocks for the half-title of Marigold Garden (see Ian Dooley, Costen Library blog post, 'Printing Kate Greenaway', 20 September 2019).
Provenance: Sotheby's Chancery Lane, 10 October 1979, lot 709 ("Property of a Gentleman"), sold to Sotheran.