Accession number
PML 88745.1-12
Published
London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Ruskin House, 40 Museum Street, W.C. 1, 1926.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Notes
Leaves printed on alternating sides.
Facsimile edition of the 1823 edition (London : A.K. Newman & Co.) with facsimile t.p., edited and enlarged with additional text by John Ruskin and illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
Original text jointly attributed to Richard Scrafton Sharpe and Mrs. Pearson.
"The woodcuts...have been facsimiled ...by Mr. W.H. Hooper, from those... in the edition of 1823"--preface by John Ruskin.
"Printed in Great Britain by Unwin Brothers, Ltd., Woking"--verso of t.p.
Publisher's advertisement inside upper cover.
Housed with the printed edition of Dame Wiggins, 1926 (PML 88745.1) are two sheets of proofs of the frontispiece and leaf 14 from the 1885 ed. (PML 88745.2-3); eight drawings attributed to Kate Greenaway, including four pencil sketches for illustrations on leaves 3, 4, 8, and 9 from the 1885 ed. (PML 88745.4-7), three pen and ink sketches (PML 88745.8-10), one watercolor sketch of flowers (PML 88745.11); and a color-printed invitation to an exhibition of the water colour drawings left by the late Kate Greenaway, at The Fine Arts Society, London, 1902 (PML 88745.12).
Facsimile edition of the 1823 edition (London : A.K. Newman & Co.) with facsimile t.p., edited and enlarged with additional text by John Ruskin and illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
Original text jointly attributed to Richard Scrafton Sharpe and Mrs. Pearson.
"The woodcuts...have been facsimiled ...by Mr. W.H. Hooper, from those... in the edition of 1823"--preface by John Ruskin.
"Printed in Great Britain by Unwin Brothers, Ltd., Woking"--verso of t.p.
Publisher's advertisement inside upper cover.
Housed with the printed edition of Dame Wiggins, 1926 (PML 88745.1) are two sheets of proofs of the frontispiece and leaf 14 from the 1885 ed. (PML 88745.2-3); eight drawings attributed to Kate Greenaway, including four pencil sketches for illustrations on leaves 3, 4, 8, and 9 from the 1885 ed. (PML 88745.4-7), three pen and ink sketches (PML 88745.8-10), one watercolor sketch of flowers (PML 88745.11); and a color-printed invitation to an exhibition of the water colour drawings left by the late Kate Greenaway, at The Fine Arts Society, London, 1902 (PML 88745.12).
Description
iv, [4] p., 20 leaves : ill. (facsimile) ; 18.5 x 12.5 cm
Provenance
With kind regards from J.S. Bain, inscription on card, laid in ; Helen Gill Viljoen Papers.
Binding
Publisher's brown pictorial covers. In yellow envelope stamped Queens College, listing the contents in Helen Viljoen's hand: "1. Kate Greenaway sketches, including pencilled designs for Dame Wiggins of Lee and her Seven Wonderful Cats" ; "2. and a copy of Dame Wiggins" ; in modern light blue folder.
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