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Kate Greenaway's carols.

Title: Kate Greenaway's carols.
Author: Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901.
Publication: London ; New York : George Routledge & Sons, [1883]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	Arents BIP+ (Greenaway, K. Cards 1883) 02-28	Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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Additional Authors

Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905.

Description

4 cards : col. ill.; 19 x 25 cm.

Subject

Genre/Form

Greeting cards – Great Britain – 19th century.

Note

Each card printed on one side only, with color ill. (wood engravings, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans) and verses (set to music on one card); title and imprint on each.
Also issued, with different text, as "Kate Greenaway's calendar for 1884."
Issued in illustrated cream envelope, printed in dark red, with title and captions "A happy New Year to you" and "Christmas is come."

Indexed In (note)

Schuster & Engen. Greenaway

Contents

(arbitrary numbering) Card [1]: Four 4-line verses, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, with 4 ill. of children in seasonal costume (engravings reprinted in 1885 Almanack), and 2 tulip vases (1 in 1885 Almanack) -- Card [2]: Vertically oriented; 8-line poem beginning "Dear baby, from where do you come," with ill. depicting the summer and winter figures from card [1] holding hands -- Card [3]: Verse beginning "As we dance, and as we sing" set to music, with 12 ill. representing the 12 months (engravings re-used in 1885 Almanack) -- Card [4]: Four 4-line verses, with 4 ill. showing groups of 2-4 figures (2 engravings used as cover and frontispiece of 1885 Almanack; reduced versions of the other two appear in the 1885 and 1886 Almanack).

Call Number

Arents BIP+ (Greenaway, K. Cards 1883) 02-28

OCLC

NYPG02-B99

Author

Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901.

Title

Kate Greenaway's carols.

Imprint

London ; New York : George Routledge & Sons, [1883]

Indexed In:

Schuster & Engen. Greenaway, 329

Local Note

Arents copy with original envelope, damaged.

Item no. 2 in a collection of twelve items housed together in a box labelled: Cards and pamphlets / Kate Greenaway.

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Added Author

Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905. Wood engraver

Research Call Number

Arents BIP+ (Greenaway, K. Cards 1883) 02-28

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