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A collection of Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes with colour illustrations to each page by Kate Greenaway. The familiar figure of Mother Goose is an imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes which are often published as Mother Goose Rhymes. As a character, she appears in one "nursery rhyme". Mother Goose is generally depicted in literature and book illustration as an elderly country woman in a tall hat and shawl, a costume identical to the peasant costume worn in Wales in the early 20th century, but is sometimes depicted as a goose (usually wearing a bonnet). Catherine Greenaway (1846 - 1901), known as Kate Greenaway, was an English children's book illustrator and writer. She studied at what is now the Royal College of Art in London, which at that time had a separate section for women, and was headed by Richard Burchett. Her first book, Under the Window (1879), a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses about children, was a bestseller. Greenaway's paintings were reproduced by chromoxylography, by which the colours were printed from hand-engraved wood blocks by the firm of Edmund Evans. Through the 1880s and 1890s, her only rivals in popularity in children's book illustration were Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott. With bookseller's label to front pastedown and with an ink inscription dated 1881 to front free endpaper. Rebacked in a cloth binding with original buckram boards. Externally, with slight wear to extremities and marks to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Bright but with handling marks to pages and the odd slight marginal tidemark. With previous repairs to some pages where there has been slight loss and closed tears. With previous owner's initial ink stamp to rear endpaper. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GEN28-C-14
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