M. H. Spielmann; G. S. Layard — Kate Greenaway

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1905 . Cloth. M. H. Spielmann and G. S. Layard's biographical work on the popular Victorian artist Kate Greenaway, illustrated with full colour plates depicting the artist's work. Reprint with minor alterations. First printed the same year in October. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, monochrome plates and vignettes and fifty three colour plates. Collated complete. This work was written by M. H. Spielmann and G. S. Layard and provides a biographical account of the life of artist Kate Greenaway with descriptions of her work. Greenaway was an English Victorian artist who was best known for her beautiful children's book illustrations. In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally sound with fading to the spine with closed tears and minor loss to the cloth to the head, bumping to the extremities, rubbing to the extremities to the tail of the boards and the odd minor mark. The odd minor handling mark to the endpapers with the odd spot to the rear with a bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. Internally pp. xi disbound but present, otherwise generally firmly bound with cords showing in places and pp. 88 tender. Pages lightly age toned, heavier to the half title, and generally clean with a mark to the index and advertisements. Good . Ill.: Kate Greenaway. Good .