KATE GREENAWAY (1846-1901) Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book for Children , London: George Routledge and Sons, [1880], 16°, PRESENTATION COPY, the printed presentation page inscribed to: "Lady Dorothy Nevill by Kate Greenaway 10 Feb. 1881," with an original calligraphic dedication reading: "To the shades of Great Spirits This book is dedicated 1884" (both these pages detached), coloured plates and illustrations after Greenaway, the verso of frontispiece with the clipped signature of Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), SIGNED AT THE APPROPRIATE BIRTH DATES BY APPROXIMATELY 150 FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES OF LADY DOROTHY, contemporary green morocco with floral white metal clasp incorporating Lady Dorothy's initials, gilt and gauffered edges (some soiling, lightly rubbed). Among the "Great Spirits" to have signed the birthday book are Oscar Wilde, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens (clipped), George Bernard Shaw, John Ruskin Victor Hugo Emile Zola Algernon Swinburne, Robert Browning Queen Victoria, Charles S. Parnell, Edward Duke of Clarence, Lord Salisbury, Henry Irving, Sarah Bernhardt Randolph S. Churchill, Ellen Terry Giuseppe Marconi, Arthur Sullivan, John Everett Millais H. Rider Haggard, Joseph Chamberlain Edward VII, Alexander Dumas, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry James Matthew Arnold, William Ewart Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli as Lord Beaconsfield (clipped), and Cardinal Newman.
KATE GREENAWAY (1846-1901) Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book for Children , London: George Routledge and Sons, [1880], 16°, PRESENTATION COPY, the printed presentation page inscribed to: "Lady Dorothy Nevill by Kate Greenaway 10 Feb. 1881," with an original calligraphic dedication reading: "To the shades of Great Spirits This book is dedicated 1884" (both these pages detached), coloured plates and illustrations after Greenaway, the verso of frontispiece with the clipped signature of Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), SIGNED AT THE APPROPRIATE BIRTH DATES BY APPROXIMATELY 150 FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES OF LADY DOROTHY, contemporary green morocco with floral white metal clasp incorporating Lady Dorothy's initials, gilt and gauffered edges (some soiling, lightly rubbed). Among the "Great Spirits" to have signed the birthday book are Oscar Wilde, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens (clipped), George Bernard Shaw, John Ruskin Victor Hugo Emile Zola Algernon Swinburne, Robert Browning Queen Victoria, Charles S. Parnell, Edward Duke of Clarence, Lord Salisbury, Henry Irving, Sarah Bernhardt Randolph S. Churchill, Ellen Terry Giuseppe Marconi, Arthur Sullivan, John Everett Millais H. Rider Haggard, Joseph Chamberlain Edward VII, Alexander Dumas, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry James Matthew Arnold, William Ewart Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli as Lord Beaconsfield (clipped), and Cardinal Newman.
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