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EDGAR and HELEN HOPE MONTGOMERY SCOTT
GREENAWAY, KATE. A Day in a Child's Life... Music by Miles B. Foster. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1881].4to, 243 x 205 mm. (9 9/16 x 8 1/16 in.), original cloth-backed light green glazed pictorial paper boards, edges stained green, green endpapers, WITH THE DUST-JACKET (separated at backstrip, chipped and soiled), folding cloth case with leather lettering-pieces (one with title, the other lettered "from John Ruskin house 'Coniston'"), case worn, fore-corners bumped, paper chipped at board edges, covers somewhat soiled, upper inner joint split. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHN RUSKIN, inscribed by Greenaway on the leaf preceding half-title "J. Ruskin Esq.r from Kate Greenaway Dec. 1881." Color-printed wood-engraved illustrations and ornaments after Greenaway. Schuster and Engen 66 (1a).
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GREENAWAY, KATE. A Day in a Child's Life... Music by Miles B. Foster. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1881].4to, 243 x 205 mm. (9 9/16 x 8 1/16 in.), original cloth-backed light green glazed pictorial paper boards, edges stained green, green endpapers, WITH THE DUST-JACKET (separated at backstrip, chipped and soiled), folding cloth case with leather lettering-pieces (one with title, the other lettered "from John Ruskin house 'Coniston'"), case worn, fore-corners bumped, paper chipped at board edges, covers somewhat soiled, upper inner joint split. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHN RUSKIN, inscribed by Greenaway on the leaf preceding half-title "J. Ruskin Esq.r from Kate Greenaway Dec. 1881." Color-printed wood-engraved illustrations and ornaments after Greenaway. Schuster and Engen 66 (1a).
John Ruskin admired Greenaway greatly and became a life-long friend and one of her chief correspondents. In December 1881 they had been exchanging letters for nearly two years, although another year was to pass before they would meet in person. From the outset of their correspondence Ruskin showered Greenaway with well-meaning advice, ranging from books and exhibitions that he recommended to artistic exercises that he hoped would make her drawings conform more closely to his views on color and representation. Greenaway often responded with books, occasionally embellishing them with a watercolor sketch. The present volume must have been among the earlier such gifts. (Cf. Spielmann and Layard, Kate Greenaway, 1905, passim).
John Ruskin admired Greenaway greatly and became a life-long friend and one of her chief correspondents. In December 1881 they had been exchanging letters for nearly two years, although another year was to pass before they would meet in person. From the outset of their correspondence Ruskin showered Greenaway with well-meaning advice, ranging from books and exhibitions that he recommended to artistic exercises that he hoped would make her drawings conform more closely to his views on color and representation. Greenaway often responded with books, occasionally embellishing them with a watercolor sketch. The present volume must have been among the earlier such gifts. (Cf. Spielmann and Layard, Kate Greenaway, 1905, passim).