GREENAWAY - EPHEMERA

A large quantity of ephemera (quantity)

A large quantity of ephemera, including:

Manuscript material: autograph letter signed to Lady Maria Ponsonby, thanking her for having her in Bournemouth and regretting her return to the "squalid sheets", "dirt and dinginess" of Hampstead, 19 October 1893; forgery of an autograph letter to "my very dear Dolly", with 3 ink sketches of scenes of the seaside, 6 September 1895; SEVERN (JOAN RUSKIN, cousin of John Ruskin and friend of Greenaway) 2 inscribed photographs, 1909 and 1911

Proofs: colour printed proofs of 3 of the 4 plates in 'Kate Greenaway's Carols' [Schuster & Engen 329], plus 2 duplicate proofs, bound together in patterned fabric-covered boards, together with a full set of the 4 final printed cards; various unbound sheets from Marigold Garden and Under the Window in different formats, possibly proofs; frontispiece to the Girl's Own Annual for 1886 in several proof states; uncoloured and coloured proof sheets of 'Goodall No. 501' or '502' greetings cards, with Schuster's notes on a mistake in the bibliography [266 or 267]

Greetings cards: upwards of 100 greetings cards, the following in complete sets: 'Wedgwood'-style [271], many copies; 'Figures in Snow Scenes' [257]; 'Goodall No. 503' [269]; 'Page Boy Set' [280]; 'Children on Flowers' [246]; 'Reward of Merit Cards' [293]; 'Story of Little Red Riding Hood's Christmas' [292]; 'Robin Hood and the Blackbird' [294]; 'Going to the Party' [264]

Doilies: 17 lace doilies with pen and ink Greenaway-style designs

Objects: folding fan with printed design of children playing badminton; small wooden hinged-lid box with child-like farmers on the lid; 'Kate Greenaway's Alphabet on Wooden Blocks', toy published by Frederick Warne in original box

And myriad other items such as news-clippings, advertisements, 4 framed prints, several drawings erroneously attributed to Greenaway, 9 copies of the bibliography Printed Kate Greenaway, etc. (quantity)