Details

Subject(s)

• Games—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Amusements—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Children—Juvenile fiction [Browse]

Former owner

Millhauser, De Witt, 1884-1946 [Browse]

Printer

Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 [Browse]

Publisher

George Routledge and Sons [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Insertions (Provenance) [Browse]
• Printed boards [Browse]
• Inscriptions [Browse]

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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