[GREENAWAY, KATE, illustrator]. TAYLOR, JANE and ANN. Little Ann and Other Poems. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1883]. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway; printed in colours by Edmund Evans. 8vo, original half green cloth, glazed pictorial boards, edges stained blue, some minor discoloration and rubbing to cover boards; some scattered foxing; IN RARE PICTORIAL DUST JACKET, some small portions missing (not affecting text or image), lined on verso; cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, A DEDICATION COPY INSCRIBED BY GREENAWAY TO OLIVER LOCKER on the dedication page: "Oliver Locker from Kate Greenaway /1883." Oliver Locker was the youngest son of Frederick Locker (later Locker-Lampson) and one of the four dedicatees of this book. His portrait and those of his brother and sisters (the other dedicatees) are featured on the dedication page. This copy also contains the Frederick Locker bookplate designed for him by Kate Greenaway. This example is the rarer version printed in black and is one of a few that were hand-colored for him by Greenaway herself (see Keith Clark, "The Bookplate designs of Kate Greenaway" in The Private Library, Second Series, vol. 8:3.Provenance: Oliver Lampson (dedicatee), presentation inscription from Greenaway on the dedication page, and his name "Oliver" faintly written in Greenaway's hand on the upper panel of the dust jacket; Frederick Locker, bookplate (hand-colored by Kate Greenaway); Alain de De Suzannet, bookplate (sale, Sotheby's, 10 December 1935, lot 425).

[GREENAWAY, KATE, illustrator]. TAYLOR, JANE and ANN. Little Ann and Other Poems. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1883]. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway; printed in colours by Edmund Evans. 8vo, original half green cloth, glazed pictorial boards, edges stained blue, some minor discoloration and rubbing to cover boards; some scattered foxing; IN RARE PICTORIAL DUST JACKET, some small portions missing (not affecting text or image), lined on verso; cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, A DEDICATION COPY INSCRIBED BY GREENAWAY TO OLIVER LOCKER on the dedication page: "Oliver Locker from Kate Greenaway /1883." Oliver Locker was the youngest son of Frederick Locker (later Locker-Lampson) and one of the four dedicatees of this book. His portrait and those of his brother and sisters (the other dedicatees) are featured on the dedication page. This copy also contains the Frederick Locker bookplate designed for him by Kate Greenaway. This example is the rarer version printed in black and is one of a few that were hand-colored for him by Greenaway herself (see Keith Clark, "The Bookplate designs of Kate Greenaway" in The Private Library, Second Series, vol. 8:3. Provenance: Oliver Lampson (dedicatee), presentation inscription from Greenaway on the dedication page, and his name "Oliver" faintly written in Greenaway's hand on the upper panel of the dust jacket; Frederick Locker, bookplate (hand-colored by Kate Greenaway); Alain de De Suzannet, bookplate (sale, Sotheby's, 10 December 1935, lot 425).

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[GREENAWAY, KATE, illustrator]. TAYLOR, JANE and ANN. Little Ann and Other Poems. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1883]. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway; printed in colours by Edmund Evans. 8vo, original half green cloth, glazed pictorial boards, edges stained blue, some minor discoloration and rubbing to cover boards; some scattered foxing; IN RARE PICTORIAL DUST JACKET, some small portions missing (not affecting text or image), lined on verso; cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, A DEDICATION COPY INSCRIBED BY GREENAWAY TO OLIVER LOCKER on the dedication page: "Oliver Locker from Kate Greenaway /1883." Oliver Locker was the youngest son of Frederick Locker (later Locker-Lampson) and one of the four dedicatees of this book. His portrait and those of his brother and sisters (the other dedicatees) are featured on the dedication page. This copy also contains the Frederick Locker bookplate designed for him by Kate Greenaway. This example is the rarer version printed in black and is one of a few that were hand-colored for him by Greenaway herself (see Keith Clark, "The Bookplate designs of Kate Greenaway" in The Private Library, Second Series, vol. 8:3.

Provenance: Oliver Lampson (dedicatee), presentation inscription from Greenaway on the dedication page, and his name "Oliver" faintly written in Greenaway's hand on the upper panel of the dust jacket; Frederick Locker, bookplate (hand-colored by Kate Greenaway); Alain de De Suzannet, bookplate (sale, Sotheby's, 10 December 1935, lot 425).