Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 975
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) GREENAWAY, KATE. Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrations throughout after Greenaway, printed in colors from woodblocks by Edmund Evans. Small 8vo, publisher's grey gilt pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed; Estelle Doheny and Louise Ward Watkins bookplates to front pastedown. London & New York: George Routledge & Sons [1881]
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first edition, first state in the rare pictorial cloth binding with no table of contents and no Evans seal added to the recto of the rear endpaper, plus all three textual errors (p.18: "bush"; p.38: numeral upside down; p.47: "boy"). in an unrecorded binding. Standard sources describe copies bound in turquoise or pinkish brown cloth, with no grey cloth copies examined. Detroit Public Library 138e; Schuster & Engen 140(1aa).