from originals presented by her to John Ruskin and other personal friends (hitherto unpublished) with an appreciation by H.M. Cundall.
Warne and Co. Ltd, London 1921
DRAFT "Kate Greenaway" children, all of them little girls and boys too young to be put in trousers, according to the conventions of the time, were dressed in her own versions of late eighteenth century and Regency fashions: smock-frocks and skeleton suits for boys, high-waisted pinafores and dresses with mobcaps and straw bonnets for girls. The influence of children's clothes in portraits by British painter John Hoppner (1758–1810) may have provided her some inspiration. Liberty of London adapted Kate Greenaway's drawings as designs for actual children's clothes. A full generation of mothers in the liberal-minded "artistic" British circles who called themselves "The Souls" and embraced the Arts and Crafts movement dressed their daughters in Kate Greenaway pantaloons and bonnets in the 1880s and 1890s.
First edition. 4to., 11pp., 20 tipped-in colour plates, mounted on hand-made paper, captioned tissue guards, deckled edges, original yellow cloth-backed green cloth boards blocked in gilt and black, a fine copy in dust-wrapper.
First edition. 4to., 11pp., 20 tipped-in colour plates, mounted on hand-made paper, captioned tissue guards, deckled edges, original yellow cloth-backed green cloth boards blocked in gilt and black, a fine copy in dust-wrapper.
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