Under the Window. Pictures and Rhymes for Children
GREENAWAY, Kate
EARLY ISSUE OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK
Published: Frederick Warne, n.d. [c.1930]
Stock code: 49119
Price: £120.00
Sm. 4to., with illustrated half-title and title, numerous fine coloured illustrations throughout, and pictorial endpapers, free endpapers mildly browned; pictorial boards, white cloth back lettered in green, corners lightly bruised else a remarkably well-preserved bright, clean, crisp copy.
Bright copy of an early printing of the the author's first book (first published 1878). Printed by Edmund Evans, arguably the finest printer of British colour printed books of the late nineteenth century. Our dating is suggested by the printer's colophon (later style) on rear free endpaper recto. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Schuster & Engen 3a (recording Warne editions [44 poems] beginning 1900); Spielmann & Layard, p.285 (recording the first edition).