Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901
Title:
Kate Greenaway's painting book : with outlines from her various works for boys & girls to paint.
Alternate Title(s):
Painting book
Published / Created:
London ; and New York : Frederick Warne and Co., [approximately 1900]
Physical Description:
[4], 7-62 pages : illustrations (wood engravings, some color) ; 24 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC978.5.G7 P35 1900+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Printed in sepia ink from key blocks of color wood engravings; pages [4], 9, 16, 21, 26, 35, 46, and 55 printed in full color (versos blank)--to face corresponding outlines.

Similar to, but with different contents from: A painting book. London : G. Routledge & Sons, [1884].

Osborne Coll. dating accepted; no later than 1901 (date of inscription in Osborne Coll. copy), and almost certainly not earlier than 1899, when Routledge, Greenaway's original publisher, went bankrupt. Schuster & Engen's "[c1888?]" is impossible: "A painting book" was still in print in 1889 or later, under the imprint of G. Routledge & Sons, Ltd. (see Schuster & Engen 149.2b).

In green color pictorial paper over flexible boards; front cover vignette of girl painting a doll, a close re-engraving of the cover vignette of "A painting book", superimposed on a central white roundel, with borders of vine leaves; back cover, girl pointing out advertisement with an umbrella.

Schuster & Engen. Greenaway, 150.1a

Osborne Collection of early children's books, 1566-1910, I, page 220

"A few practical directions for colouring."--Rear pastedown.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original illustrated boards.
Subject Terms:
Coloring books. | Amusements -- Great Britain. | Coloring books.
Form/Genre:
Coloring books. | Wood engravings. | Chromoxylographs.
Contributors:
Frederick Warne and Co., publisher.