Kate Greenaway A Apple Pie

Greenaway, Kate: A Apple Pie. Frederick Warne, London o. J. (1886).
Einband wenig berieben, Kanten wenig beschabt, Ecken leicht bestoßen, Rücken etwas ausgeblichen. Die Klammerheftung innen ist stark verrostet. Der Buchblock an beiden Gelenken gebrochen, die Vorsatzblätter, sowie erste und letzte Seite an der Heftung verfärbt, sonst sehr schönes, sauberes Expl. Insgesamt recht gute Erhaltung, schönes Expl. - Vermutlich 1. Ausgabe im Warner Verlag, im gl. Jahr der Erstausgabe. - The cover and flyleaf are separating from the rest of the book, but are still attached by the webbing. They have also suffered from staple rust. Apart from this, the book is in good condition. - Twenty-two color illustrated unnumbered leaves. Original illustrated boards, green cloth spine, corners slightly rubbed. A lovely alphabet book by Kate Greenaway telling the story of the life of an apple pie: A is for "apple pie;" B is for "bit it;" C is for "cut it;" D is for "dealt it;" and so on, ending with "UVWXYZ all had a large slice and went off to bed." The charming illustrations depict children in various stages of playing with, fighting for, and eating the apple pie. Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was one of the most popular illustrators of children's books in the latter part of the 19th century. She studied at South Kensington and the Slade and later became an illustrator for Edmund Evans, the printer for Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott. Her method was to draw in watercolor and then transfer her drawings to woodblocks. Her illustrations were so successful that she exhibited them at the Royal Academy in 1877 and the Fine Arts Society in 1891. She was also a friend of John Ruskin and maintained a long correspondence with him. This is probably the first Warne edition published the same year as the first edition by George Routledge in London in 1886.

22 unpaginierte einseitig bedruckte Bll. mit 20 farbigen Illustrationen. quer 8° . Farbig illustr. OHLn.

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<B>A. APPLE PIE</B>, and other Nursery Tales. London, New York, Frederick Warne and Co., Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, (ca. 1880).
Beautiful English picture book for the very young, with the four most popular English primers: "A. Apple Pie", an hilarious A B C book, "Nursery Rhymes", including "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son", "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary", "Humpty Dumpty", etc. "Nursery Songs", with "Hey, diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle", "Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet", "Little Bo-peep has lost his (sic!) sheep", etc. and "Nursery Ditties", including "See-saw, Magery Daw", "Jack and Jill went up the hill", "Little Tom Tucker, Sing for your supper", etc. Each part is most vividly illustrated with six richly colour-printed full-page plates. The "A. Apple Pie" is here also illustrated with full-page plates rather than with the usual illustrations of the separate letters of the alphabet, but the text is all there, with "A was an Apple Pie, B. bit it, C cut it, D. danced for it, etc.", printed in short lines of large type on facing pages, that is on versos of the plates. The plates are not signed and the artist has remained anonymous. All primers present here belong to the most popular of English children's books, which appeared in print since the 1740's and are still popular today. The books were newly illustrated by all the great children's book artists, like Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, etc. The "A. Apple Pie" was also translated in Dutch in about 1860, the translation full of errors, but the plates very nicely illustrating each letter separately with four little scenes to one plate.
Good, but sl. used copy from Warne's "Now and Then" Juvenile Series.- (Binding sl. rubbed, first free endpaper removed; few stains; some browning).
Muir p. 77, et passim; cf. Osborne Coll. p. 89-90 (other single ed. of A. Apple Pie) and p. 673 (A. Apple Pie also with 6 full-page plates, but with another children's book added); Gumuchian 6037 (London-ed. of 1816 of "A. Apple Pie"); Die Bilderwelt 1001 ("A. Apple Pie", illustrated by Kate Greenaway, 1886); Landwehr, <I>Prentgeschenk</I>, 1a (Dutch translation of "A. Apple Pie", ca. 1860).

Sm.4to. Orig. reddish brown cloth, spine titled in black, sides decoratively blind-stamped and stamped in black, with gilt title-label on front cover. With 24 full-page colour-printed wood-engraved plates, partly with text on verso and interleaved with blank lvs.

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Greenaway, Kate illustrated by Kate Greenaway: A Apple Pie, , London & New York Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd , no date given, approximately 1925
, oblong, 27 x 21 cm

, 44 unnumbered pages, 20 colour plates New Edition , oblong, 27 x 21 cm Hardback , edges of boards rubbed, cover a little marked, more so on rear, light crease marks on lower corner of pages, a reasonable copy, good conditon , illustrated paper covered boards with green cloth spine

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Greenaway, Kate: A Treasury of Kate Greenaway, Robert Frederick, Bath 2003 ISBN: 0907789137
A collection of Greenaway's illustrations and nursery rhymes and stories. Includes an Apple Pie (an indivudal page of each letter of the alphabet), a Book of Games, Mother Goose, Robert Browning's The Pied Piper of Hemelin, Under the Window, a Birthday book with records section and a Book of Tunes, with music.

Hardback, 265 pp., beautifully illustrated in colours; formate: 29 x 22 cm; condition: very good

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