Greenaway (Kate, 1846-1901). A drawing of a young lady, pen & ink with traces of pencil, showing a girl in a bonnet holding gathered flowers in her overskirt and smelling a flower, leaning against a low wall, 13.2 x 8.9cm (5.25 x 3.5 ins), tipped onto the front free endpaper of Language of Flowers, 1st edition, Routledge and Sons, [1884], 1st issue, with title printed in brown on upper cover, and bright yellow endpapers, numerous colour illustrations, some light toning or spotting, edges stained yellow, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, a little rubbed and marked, some wear to extremities, slight creasing to both covers, 8vo, contained in a custom made green morocco gilt drop-back box by George Bayntun Bookbinder and Bookseller, with an advertising leaflet and a typewritten letter signed by H. H. Bayntun-Coward on George Bayntun headed notepaper loosely inserted (Qty: 1) Language of Flowers: Schuster & Engen 107.1a.
Greenaway (Kate, 1846-1901). A drawing of a young lady, pen & ink with traces of pencil, showing a girl in a bonnet holding gathered flowers in her overskirt and smelling a flower, leaning against a low wall, 13.2 x 8.9cm (5.25 x 3.5 ins), tipped onto the front free endpaper of Language of Flowers, 1st edition, Routledge and Sons, [1884], 1st issue, with title printed in brown on upper cover, and bright yellow endpapers, numerous colour illustrations, some light toning or spotting, edges stained yellow, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, a little rubbed and marked, some wear to extremities, slight creasing to both covers, 8vo, contained in a custom made green morocco gilt drop-back box by George Bayntun Bookbinder and Bookseller, with an advertising leaflet and a typewritten letter signed by H. H. Bayntun-Coward on George Bayntun headed notepaper loosely inserted (Qty: 1) Language of Flowers: Schuster & Engen 107.1a.
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