Kate Greenaway, A Biography
by ENGEN (Rodney)
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- Hardcover
- first
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ENGEN (Rodney):
Kate Greenaway, A Biography.
London: Macdonald, 1981.
With 15 color and 121 b/w illustrations (many hitherto unpublished).
8vo., 240 pp.; clothbound with pictorial dust-wrapper.
First edition.
Authoritative illustrated biography based upon unpublished correspondence (including her "love letters" to John Ruskin), family papers and interviews with surviving friends.
At the end is an annotated checklist of books.
Considered the best Greenaway biography to date.
Kate Greenaway, A Biography.
London: Macdonald, 1981.
With 15 color and 121 b/w illustrations (many hitherto unpublished).
8vo., 240 pp.; clothbound with pictorial dust-wrapper.
First edition.
Authoritative illustrated biography based upon unpublished correspondence (including her "love letters" to John Ruskin), family papers and interviews with surviving friends.
At the end is an annotated checklist of books.
Considered the best Greenaway biography to date.
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- Bookseller
- BATTLEDORE LTD (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABB021
- Title
- Kate Greenaway, A Biography
- Author
- ENGEN (Rodney)
- Illustrator
- Kate Greenaway
- Format/Binding
- Cloth over boards, printed pictorial dust-jacket
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macdonald
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1981
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Greenaway, Kate Greenaway, biography, children's art, illustration
- Bookseller catalogs
- illustrated art;
- Size
- 8vo.
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