Mother Goose.

GREENAWAY, Kate.

Item Number: 101332

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1881.

First edition, second issue of Greenaway’s classic collection of illustrated nursery rhymes. Small octavo, original half cloth with lattice-print paper-covered boards, olive green endpapers, illustrated by the author. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition with some chips to the extremities. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box.

English Victorian artist and author Catherine Greenaway began her career designing greeting cards for the burgeoning holiday card market in the mid 19th century after receiving her degree in graphic design from the Slade School of Fine Art. Greenaway began collaborating with wood-block engraver Edmund Evans with her first popular children's book, Under the Window, which appeared in 1879. Within a few years of the best-selling work's publication, Greenaway's depictions of children in imaginary 18th-century costumes in a Queen Anne style were being imitated in England, Germany and the United States. Published at the height of Greenaway's publishing career, Mother Goose contains a charming collection of the classic children's nursery rhymes each accompanied by a full page illustration.