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(catherine) Kate Greenaway

Female : Artist and book illustrator. Single. Strongly influenced by John Ruskin from the 1880s
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Hoxton, London

Date of Birth : 1846 Date of Death : 1901 Age : 55

Education : Female School of Art in South Kensington & Slade School
All Routledge unless stated
1870-1880
Aunt Louisa's Nursery Favourite
(1870 Warne)
Diamonds and Toads
(1871 Warne)
Children's Songs
(1875 Marcus Ward)
A Quiver of Love : A Collection of Valentines Ancient & Modern
(1876 Marcus Ward) - with Walter Crane
Under the Window : Pictures & Rhymes for Children
(1878)
The Little Folks' Painting Book
(1879 Cassell/Peter Galpin)
Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book for Children
(1880) - verses by Mrs Sale Barker

1881-1885
Mother Goose or The Old Nursery Rhymes
(1881)
A Day in a Child's Life
(1881) - music by Myles B Foster
Almanacks from 1883 to 1897
(Routledge)
[1896 not published. 14 Miniature volumes in total. Most were issued with an envelope
dustjacket altho the 1897 was leather bound and is the rarest.]

Language of Flowers
(1884)
Songs for the Nursery
(1884)
A Painting Book
(1884)
Marigold Garden
(1885)
Kate Greenaway's Album
(1885) - Ltd to 8 copies
English Spelling Book
(1885)
Kate Greenaway's Alphabet
(1885) - miniature book with card covers
Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats
(1885 George Allen)
(1897 George Allen. 2nd Ed)
A Apple Pie
(1885) (1907 Saalfield Publ Co, Akron)

1886 Onwards
Rhymes for Young Folk : Verses by William Allingham
(1886 Cassell) - et al
Queen Victoria's Jubilee Garland
(1887)
Baby's Birthday Book
(1887 Marcus Ward)
Kate Greenaway's Book of Games
(1889)
Kate Greenaway's Almanack and Diary for 1897
(1897 Dent)
A Calendar for the Seasons
(1876-82 Marcus Ward)
A Calendar of the Months
(1884 Marcus Ward)
Kate Greenaway's Calendar
(1884-99)
Kate Greenaway Pictures from Originals presented by her to John Ruskin & other
Personal Friends
(1921 Warne)

Elizabeth VON ARNIM
(By Belinda Von Hutton) : The April Baby's Book of Tunes
(1900 Macmillan)
Madame D'AULNOY : Fairy Tales
(c1871 Gall & Inglis, Edinburgh) - 9 books in all
(Ed) Sale BARKER : Little Wide-Awake (1888 Routledge)
Mary A BEAUCHAMP : The April Baby's Book of Tunes
(1900 Macmillan)
Robert BROWNING : The Pied Piper of Hamelin
(1888 Routledge)
G E BRUNEFILLE : Topo - A Tale about English Children in Italy
(1878 Marcus Ward)
[Written by Lady Colin Campbell]
Aunt CAE : The Children of the Parsonage
(1874 Griffith & Farran)
Mary Senior CLARK : Turnaside Cottage
(1875 Marcus Ward)
Beatrice CRESSWELL : The Royal Progress of King Pepito
(1889 SPCK)
Julia GODDARD : Caspar and the Seven Wonderful Pigeons of Wurzburg
(1876 Marcus Ward)
Bret HARTE : The Queen of the Pirate Isle
(1886 Chatto & Windus)
Miranda HILL : The Fairy Spinner
(1875 Marcus Ward)
Mrs Bonavia HUNT : Poor Nelly
(1878 Cassell) - Anon
Alice JERROLD : The Cruise of the Acorn
(1875 Marcus Ward)
Kathleen KNOX : Fairy Gifts, or a Wallet of Wonders
(1874 Griffith & Farran)
Seven Birthdays
(1876 Griffith & Farran)
Fanny LABLACHE : Starlight Stories
(1877 Griffith & Farran)
Andrew LANG : The Library
(1881 Macmillan)
(Ed) W J LOFTIE : Orient Line Guide (1888 Sampson Low. 3rd Ed)
Rosa MULHOLLAND : Puck and Blossom
(1875 Marcus Ward)
Walter Herries POLLOCK & Lady POLLOCK : Amateur Theatricals
(1879 Macmillan)
Frederick Scarlett POTTER : Melcomb Manor - A Family Chronicle
(1875 Marcus Ward)
John RUSKIN : Fors Clavigera - Letters to Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain
(1883 George Allen)
H Rutherford RUSSELL : Tom Seven Years Old
(1876 Marcus Ward)
Mabel H SPIELMANN : Littledom Castle & other Tales
(1903 Routledge) - et al
Jane & Ann TAYLOR : Little Ann & Other Poems
(1883 Routledge)
Charlotte M YONGE : The Heir of Redclyffe
(1888 Macmillan)

READING
H M Spielmann & G S Layard : Kate Greenaway
(1905 A & C Black) - de luxe Ed 500
H M Spielmann : Kate Greenaway - Sixteen Examples in Colour of the Artist's Work
(1910 A & C Black)
Anne Carroll Moore : A Century of Kate Greenaway
(1946 Warne)
Covelle Newcomb : The Secret Door - The Story of Kate Greenaway
(1946 Dodd Mead)
- Drawings after Kate Greenaway by Addison Burbank
Rodney K Engen : Kate Greenaway
(1976 Academy Editions)
Susan Roth Thomson : A Catalogue of the Kate Greenaway Collection, Rare Book Room,
Detroit Public Library
(1977 Wayne State UP)
Brian Holme : The Kate Greenaway Book
(1979 London)
Rodney Engen : Kate Greenaway - A Biography
(1981 Schocken Books, NY)
[This tells of her unrequited love affair with Ruskin]
Thomas E Schuster & Rodney Engen : Printed Kate Greenaway - A Catalogue Raisonne
(1986 T E Schuster)
Ina Taylor : The Art of Kate Greenaway
(1991 Webb & Bower)

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