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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Bright yellow cloth embossed with a garden trellis and gilt title spine. 96 pp glossy text crisp and unmarked. Unclipped original dj in new mylar has no faults. No artist has caught the innocent charm of childhood as winningly as this Victorian spinster. Her children's books, with their winsome girls and boys dressed in quaint eighteenth-century frocks and breeches, took London by storm in the 1870s and '80s, and the rest of the world followed. The "Kate Greenaway style" influenced children's clothing for at least a generation and was worn by turn-of-the-century tots as dissimilar as American dancer Isadora Duncan and Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. Among the 80 or more books, almanacs, diaries, and calendars illustrated by Kate Greenaway, Mother Goose or The Old Nursery Rhymes, published in 1881, has been one of the most enduring. It has been reissued countless times, the charming illustrations losing some of their brightness and clarity over the years, Now, after more than a century, the never-before-published complete facsimile pages of the artist's two sketchbooks, in which she predesigned her little masterpiece are presented here for the first time in a single volume, the work as crisp and colorful as the day it was made. Kate, ever the perfectionist, had plotted the design of her pages, executing watercolor illustrations almost as precisely as they would be in the actual book, with the text lightly penciled in. Occasionally there is a little marginal note with instructions to herself. Illus. By The Author (illustratore).…