Kate Greenaway's Family Treasury

First Edition, First Printing. (Derrydale, 1979)Fine ina. fine dust jacket; presents as new. A lovely collection pulled from five of Greenaway's most beloved books: "A Applepie,'' "Book of Games," "Marigold Garden," "Mother Goose," & "Under the Window," each first published 1878-1889.

Beautifully illustrated across the pull 94 pages as well as the endpapers and inside boards. A lovely copy of this Greemaway compendium, scarce in this fine condition.

Here for the first time in one book, are selections from five Kate Greenaway classics. Under the Window (1878), her first major success is a collection of scenes from country life. Marigold Garden (1885) depicts the day-to-day life of children and their mothers and features verses written by Kate Greenaway herself. A Apple Pie (1886), a Mother Goose alphabet rhyme about an enormous apple pie, appeals so strongly to the sweet tooth that it awakens the child in all of us. Kate Greenaway had an obvious affinity for these traditional poems; earlier she had illustrated a collection entitled Mother Goose (1881), which has long been a favorite of young children. Her Book of Games (1889) gives verbal and visual descriptions of children's pastimes popular in Victorian England. As educational as it is delightful, this is the most ornate of the works of this collection. Kate Greenaway's art grew from her love of children and of the simple life.