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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Kate Greenaway's birthday book for children / with 382 illustrations, drawn by Kate Greenaway, printed by Edmund Evans. Verses by Mrs. Sale Barker.

Accession number
PML 87144
Creator
Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901.
Published
London: : George Routledge and Sons, Broadway, Ludgate Hill. New York: 416 Broome Street., [1880].
Credit line
Gift; Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
"London Engraved & Printed at Racquet Court by Edmund Evans"--Colophon.
Interleaved with green-ruled, unnumbered pages, unused. Total pages: 254.
Uncolored copy.
Listed in English catalogue IV, p. 233: "3s 6d & 2s 6d Routledge 1880".
Schuster & Engen 39.1-3 almost certainly represent binding variants of a single edition.
Signed, K. Greenaway, back of frontispiece.
Kate Greenaway's copy.
Uncolored author's copy.
Description
[4], 126, [4] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 100 x 98 mm.
Provenance
From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
White leather-like cloth boards, bevelled edges; lettered in gold; circular colored inset of two children; flowers and insect wings stamped in gold. Rose red end-papers. Gilded edges. In a dark green half oasis and buckram slipcase by Julia P. Wightman.
Classification
Department