GREENAWAY, Kate.

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Collection of works. A large assemblage of the illustrator's works, including a presentation copy of the Book of Games inscribed to her patron Lady Dorothy Nevill, a copy of Mother Goose (1881) in dust jacket, and works including Languages of Flowers (1884) and her ephemeral Almanacks and Calendars. Almost all the copies are first editions and in very nice condition.Kate Greenaway's Book of Games (1889) is inscribed on the half-title in the year of publication, "Lady Dorothy Nevill, From Kate Greenaway, 1889". Lady Dorothy (1826-1913) hosted Greenaway and others at her neo-Grecian mansion, Dangstein, near Petersfield, where Lady Dorothy kept a museum of her collection of visual art and maintained a 23-acre garden with exotic specimens that attracted the attention of Charles Darwin."It is often claimed by admirers that, during the 1860s and 1870s, Kate Greenaway dressed a generation of children; that her influence upon fashion was to ensnare such diverse personalities as Isidora Duncan, the German Kaiser as well as royal infants, each one dutifully outfitted in Kate Greenaway apparel. Such influence extended into the spheres of commercial printing, publishing, fine art porcelain, jewellery and haberdashery" (Schuster & Engen, p. 9). Her artistic style "combined strong outlines and a keen ability to arrange and pattern space with the use of a palette of soft, silvery pastel colours" in its portrayals of "idyllic and profoundly nostalgic depictions of vaguely 18th-century and sl

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