Search Results: mother goose or the old nursery by greenaway kate 1846 1901

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London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd.. First Edition, Reprint. Hardcover. Poor copy in the original colour printed boards; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 52 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm. Notes; No clear date given. Subjects; Nursery rhymes. Children's poetry. Greenaway, Kate [illustrator]. English. Nursery rhymes. Mother Goose. Nursery rhymes and alphabets. Nursery rhymes Pictorial works. Facsimiles. Nursery rhymes.

London & New York: Frederick Warne and Co. First . Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Kate Greenaway. In red cloth spine, over cream cloth boards, green trellis design, title with the G upside down to both boards. Spine, no title, edges worn. Internally, purple endpapers, contents list, half title, frontis, [1], [4], 5-48 illustrations within borders, each with the illustrator's initials (KG) to lower left corner, [1] printers details stating: London Engraved & Printed at the Racquet Court Press by Edmund Evans, final leaf lower tip lacking. Some paper damage to p13/14 &15 at margins, not affecting illustration. (170*122 mm). REDUCED

London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1915]. [Children's Illustrated] VINTAGE EDITION with fine colour illustrations. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.52. With fine coloured illustrations by the author, printed by Evans at Rose Place, London. Publisher's green cloth to spine, titled in brown, with glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. Heavy pencil inscription to front pastedown, giving incorrect information about the printing date. Quite crisp and clean internally. Binding toned, with rubbing and bumping to board edges. Very good. First published in 1881, 'Mother Goose' is considered one of the high-points of Victorian illustrated book production and design. Frederick Warne purchased the rights to print a number of Routledge's most popular children's books in 1900, including this one, and in 1914 the premises of Edmund Evans printers moved from the long-established Racquet Court on Fleet Street to Rose Place, Globe Road.