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Kate Greenaway's birthday book for children / with 382 illustrations drawn by Kate Greenaway ; verses by Mrs. Sale Barker.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1880 Greenaw
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birthday books.
- Children's poetry.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 19th century.
- Booksellers' labels (Provenance) -- England.
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)
- Physical Description:
- 126, [4] p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 10 x 10 cm.
- Other Title:
- Birthday book for children
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : George Routledge and Sons, [ca. 1880?] (London : Edmund Evans)
- Notes:
- Colophon: London Engraved & printed at Racquet Court by Edmund Evans [over-printed upon floral spray].
- Consists of 128 leaves with numbered pages of text alternating with unnumbered leaves with green and black rules for birthday entries.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Enchanting Simplicity: Children's Book Illustration Past and Present" at The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2009.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Peter J. Koblenzer.
- Athenaeum's copy presented to Madeline E. Wintle, Harleyford, Belgrave Road, Tyndall's Park, Bristol; several birthdays entered.
- Athenaeum copy has bookseller's label: William S. Clark, Bookseller, Stationer &c. 32, Triangle, Bristol.
- Athenaeum copy: Dark blue binding with ill. of children playing with badminton rackets, from plate opposite p. 25; spine has imprint of Griffith & Farran.
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