Kate Greenaway's book of games :
with twenty-four colour plates.

Description

Main Author

Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901.

Related Names

Renier, Fernand Gabriel, 1905-1988, donor.
Renier, Anne, 1911?-1988, donor.
Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943, former owner.
Duke, Joan, donor.
National Art Library (Great Britain). Renier Collection of Historic and Contemporary Children's Books.
National Art Library (Great Britain). Duke Collection.
Frederick Warne (Firm)

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., [1927]

Subjects

Games.
Games.
Games.
Picture books.
Juvenile works.
picture books.
children's books.
Illustrated case bindings (gathered matter components.
glazed paper.
frontispieces (illustrations)
Colour line blocks.
Cloth case bindings.
bookplates.

Summary

Illustrated instructions for over 70 children's games.

Note

Originally published in 1889.
Quarter binding of green cloth and green glazed pictorial papers over boards. Pale green endpapers. (Copy B with transparent dust jacket.).
Library's copy [A] acquired by the Reniers in Tottenham Lane in August 1960.
Library's copy B previously owned by Beatrix Potter and donated to the Library by Joan Duke in October 2006.
Half-title.
Frontispiece; illustrated with colour line photoengravings.
Dated from "Printed Kate Greenaway : a catalogue raisonne", 1986.
Copy [A] with bookplate on upper pastedown reads: "From the Library of Anne Renier and F.G. Renier."
Copy [A] initialled in ink "AR" (ie. Anne Renier) on lower flyleaf.
Copy [A] donated by Anne Renier and F.G. Renier.

Physical Description

63 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

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