first edition leather_bound
1890 · London
by Greenaway, Kate
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1890. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. white leather lettered and decorated in gilt. Aeg. Near fine. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me. GORDON N. RAY, p.157. Bright, clean copy. Front cover depicts young lady holding an infant in her arms with two young children at either side within a floral leaf border. (Inventory #: 17597)