Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books
Item #54930 Kate Greenaway's Almanack for 1891 [WITH] An Original Design Sketch by Greenaway for the Book. Kate Greenaway.
Kate Greenaway's Almanack for 1891 [WITH] An Original Design Sketch by Greenaway for the Book
Kate Greenaway's Almanack for 1891 [WITH] An Original Design Sketch by Greenaway for the Book

Kate Greenaway's Almanack for 1891 [WITH] An Original Design Sketch by Greenaway for the Book

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1891. First edition. Hardcover, loose leaf. 32mo. Unpaginated [24pp.]. Original tan boards with gilt miniature in decorative lithographic frame, and gilt lettering on cover; lithographic frame duplicated on back cover, protected by modern mylar. Gilt edges. Dark green endpapers. Frontispiece lithograph. All color illustrations and decor rendered lithographically. Title page with vignette in decorative color frame. Color vignette on verso of title page. All twelve calendar pages illustrated with decorative framing, followed by a page with vignette, four pages with vignettes titled Spring, Summer, etc., and two additional pages with vignettes at rear. Engraved and printed at Raquet Court, by Edmund Evans. Fine condition.

[WITH]

Original matted (matt 11 1/2 x 9 1/2") pencil drawing in the exact measurements of the printed calendar pages (3 3/8 x 2 5/16") in the book, with similar compared to the illustration for the July page. Drawing with some light foxing. Fine condition. Item #54930

Price: $2,500.00

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