Kate Greenaway the Private Collection of the late Thomas SchusterGREENAWAY (KATE)The Quiver of Love, 8 chromolithographed plates mounted (4 by Greenaway, 4 by Walter Crane , gift inscription, publisher's bevelled blue cloth gilt, FINE COPY [Schuster & Engen 167.1j but with dark blue endpapers], Marcus Ward, 1876; Under the Window, SIGNED BY GREENAWAY on the half-title, ownership stamp of her brother Alfred on front free endpaper, first and last few leaves lightly foxed, publisher's pictorial boards, corners rubbed [cf. 201 but varying from all issues], Routledge, [1878]; The Fairy at the Fountain... From Coloured Designs by Miss Kate Greenaway 6 chromolithographed plates, publisher's pictorial wrappers, very worn and creased [not in Schuster, cf. 30.1c], Frederick Warne, [1871]; Mother Goose, second issue, light toning, publisher's cloth, spotted, DUST-JACKET, spine panel chipped at head [140.1b], Routledge, [1881]; Language of Flowers, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on half-title to "H.S. Marks Esqr. R.A. from Kate Greenaway 1884", publisher's pictorial boards, contents shaken, rubbed [107.1a], Routledge, [1884]--HARTE (BRET) The Queen of the Pirate Isle, light spotting and offsetting, publisher's cloth, lightly rubbed, LOOSELY INSERTED AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (see footnote) [165.1e], Chatto & Windus, [1886], FIRST EDITIONS, 4to and 8vo; and approximately 44 others, almost all illustrated by Greenaway (quantity)FootnotesIn the letter, dated 2 April 1889, Greenaway writes to booksellers Palmer & Howe of Manchester, apparently enclosing the original drawings for Queen of the Pirate Isle; according to Spielmann and Layard, she sold her Pied Piper and 1893 Almanack illustrations to them (Spielmann, pp.172, 182). "I think the getting up of the book very nice," she writes, "but of course the drawings would look far better and cleaner if they were surrounded by raised mounts". Henry Stacy Marks to whom she inscribes this copy of Language of Flowers, was "her kind mentor and chief adviser" (Spielmann, p.104).
Kate Greenaway the Private Collection of the late Thomas SchusterGREENAWAY (KATE)The Quiver of Love, 8 chromolithographed plates mounted (4 by Greenaway, 4 by Walter Crane , gift inscription, publisher's bevelled blue cloth gilt, FINE COPY [Schuster & Engen 167.1j but with dark blue endpapers], Marcus Ward, 1876; Under the Window, SIGNED BY GREENAWAY on the half-title, ownership stamp of her brother Alfred on front free endpaper, first and last few leaves lightly foxed, publisher's pictorial boards, corners rubbed [cf. 201 but varying from all issues], Routledge, [1878]; The Fairy at the Fountain... From Coloured Designs by Miss Kate Greenaway 6 chromolithographed plates, publisher's pictorial wrappers, very worn and creased [not in Schuster, cf. 30.1c], Frederick Warne, [1871]; Mother Goose, second issue, light toning, publisher's cloth, spotted, DUST-JACKET, spine panel chipped at head [140.1b], Routledge, [1881]; Language of Flowers, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on half-title to "H.S. Marks Esqr. R.A. from Kate Greenaway 1884", publisher's pictorial boards, contents shaken, rubbed [107.1a], Routledge, [1884]--HARTE (BRET) The Queen of the Pirate Isle, light spotting and offsetting, publisher's cloth, lightly rubbed, LOOSELY INSERTED AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (see footnote) [165.1e], Chatto & Windus, [1886], FIRST EDITIONS, 4to and 8vo; and approximately 44 others, almost all illustrated by Greenaway (quantity)FootnotesIn the letter, dated 2 April 1889, Greenaway writes to booksellers Palmer & Howe of Manchester, apparently enclosing the original drawings for Queen of the Pirate Isle; according to Spielmann and Layard, she sold her Pied Piper and 1893 Almanack illustrations to them (Spielmann, pp.172, 182). "I think the getting up of the book very nice," she writes, "but of course the drawings would look far better and cleaner if they were surrounded by raised mounts". Henry Stacy Marks to whom she inscribes this copy of Language of Flowers, was "her kind mentor and chief adviser" (Spielmann, p.104).
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