Mother Goose or The Old Nursery Rhymes Illustrated by Kate Greenaway; as originally engraved and printed by Edmund Evans

New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1881. Hardcover. "Author's Edition." 48 p.: chromolithographed illustrations; 18 cm. Blue-green cloth spine; pink glazed pictorial boards with identical chromolithographed illustration and title on each board. Olive green endpapers. All page edges pink. llustrated half title and title pages. Colophon on back free endpaper: "Drawn on Stone & Printed by Wemple & Company Art Lithographers New York." Contents printed on front free endpaper verso. No date of publication; 1881 is the date commonly assigned to this edition. Thomson, Catalogue of the Kate Greenaway Collection, 139a. In Fair+ Condition: edges are rubbed with some loss at spine ends; cloth splitting from head of spine over front joint; boards have faded to brown; separated along both hinges but some stitching still holding; soiling throughout, primarily on margins; ink line below text on one page. Fair +. Item #004478

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