Kate Greenaway's book of games / with twenty-four full-page plates engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans.

Author
Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; Glasgow ; Manchester ; New York : George Routledge & Sons (Broadway, Ludgate Hill), [1889] [(London)] : Engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans, Racquet Court, Fleet Street, E.C.
Description
63, [1] p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 5633 Eng 19 Browse related items Reading Room Request
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  • Princeton copy 1
    Special Collections - Rare Books GV1203 .xG7 Browse related items Reading Room Request
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    • Princeton copy 2
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      • Princeton copy 3

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        Notes
        • Date from Osborne and Schuster & Engen.
        • Illustrations: Half-page chromoxylographs of children playing, set within two-panel ruled borders with text description of game depicted in panel below, along with smaller illustrations of flowers or fruits.
        • Princeton copy 3 "Received of E. Evans, Esq. (?), £60 for drawings for second book of Games, Kate Greenaway, 8th Dec., 1888"--Stamped receipt pasted down to front free endpaper verso (possibly in Greenaway's hand)."
        • Princeton copy 1 Corner Book Shop, 102 4th Ave., New York"--Bookseller's label on front pastedown.
        • Princeton copy 1 "Jerome P. De Witt, July 16, 1894"--Inscribed on front free endpaper.
        • Princeton copy 1 Blue Cotsen bookplate, dated 12 '66, laid in.
        • Princeton copy 2 Schuster & Engen Kate Greenaway
        • Princeton copy 3 Schuster & Engen Kate Greenaway
        • Princeton copy 2 Presented in memory of De Witt Millhauser by Mr. and Mrs. William M. Cahn, Jr., Class of 1933.
        • Princeton copy 3 Presented in memory of De Witt Millhauser by Mr. and Mrs. William M. Cahn, Jr., Class of 1933.
        • Princeton copy 1 Green glazed pictorial paper bds., with color illustration on both covers and blue spine cloth; all edges yellow; bright yellow endpapers.
        • Princeton copy 2 Green glazed pictorial paper bds., with color illustration on both covers and blue spine cloth; all edges yellow; bright yellow endpapers.
        • Princeton copy 3 Yellow cloth bds., stamped with title in gilt and black and with color vignette; all edges yellow; bright yellow endpapers.
        References
        Osborne Coll., p. 220
        Other title(s)
        Book of games
        OCLC
        34380427
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