GREENAWAY (KATE): ALMANACKS, George Routledge & Sons., 1883 [1884 (2 alternative bindings)]-1895, 1897, 1925, 16 vols., first editions, 16mo, plates and illustrations by Kate Greenaway, coloured from woodblocks by Edmund Evans, original cloth, cloth-backed boards or limp morocco, all decorated by Kate Greenaway (spine of 1890 slightly holed, upper cover of 1925 slightly scuffed). [Schuster and Engen 1d (Meacham 8); 2a and 2d (Meacham 18); 3a (Meacham 19); 4c (Meacham 26); 5a (Meacham 29); 6f (Meacham 38); 7a (Meacham 37); 8a (Meacham 41); 9a (Meacham 42); 10b; 11b (Meacham 47]; 12b (Meacham 50); 13a (Meacham 51); 14b (Meacham 56); 16a] (16)

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GREENAWAY (KATE): ALMANACKS, George Routledge & Sons., 1883 [1884 (2 alternative bindings)]-1895, 1897, 1925, 16 vols., first editions, 16mo, plates and illustrations by Kate Greenaway, coloured from woodblocks by Edmund Evans, original cloth, cloth-backed boards or limp morocco, all decorated by Kate Greenaway (spine of 1890 slightly holed, upper cover of 1925 slightly scuffed). [Schuster and Engen 1d (Meacham 8); 2a and 2d (Meacham 18); 3a (Meacham 19); 4c (Meacham 26); 5a (Meacham 29); 6f (Meacham 38); 7a (Meacham 37); 8a (Meacham 41); 9a (Meacham 42); 10b; 11b (Meacham 47]; 12b (Meacham 50); 13a (Meacham 51); 14b (Meacham 56); 16a] (16)

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A complete run of Greenaway's Almanacks from the outset in 1883 to 1925, excepting that for 1924. There were none printed in 1896, or from 1898-1923. Meacham considers that for 1897 to be 'K.G.'s rarest almanack, re-issued with new text as "Kate Greenaway's Almanack and Diary for 1929"'

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