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

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this highly illustrated work on English artist and writer Kate Greenaway. First edition, second impression. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, fifty-three colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A charming work on an English Victorian artist and writer, Catherine or Kate Greenaway, best known for her children's book illustrations. With chapters on her early life and childhood, education, Christmas cards and books, friendship with Ruskin, her first exhibition, verse writing, and much more. Written by Marion Harry Alexander Spielmann, a prolific Victorian art critic and scholar, and George Somes Layard, an English barrister, journalist and man of letters. In the original full blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and age toning to the extremities. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .