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Under the window: pictures and rhymes for children

Book
1879 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
George Routledge and Sons (publisher)
Kate Greenaway (illustrator)
Place of origin
London (printed and published)

[6], 7-64 pages with colour wood-engraved illustrations, cloth back binding of green rib grain cloth with with green glazed pictorial papers over boards. All edges stained yellow. Green endpapers.

Object details

Categories
National Art Library
British Galleries
Books
Children & Childhood
Illustration
Object type
Book
TitleUnder the window: pictures and rhymes for children
Materials and techniques
Case-bound cloth backed printed book illustrated with colour wood-engravings.
Printing Ink
Paper (Fiber Product)
Printing
Wood-Engraving
Brief description
Book, Under the window: pictures and rhymes for children by Kate Greenaway, London: printed by Edmund Evans, published by George Routledge and Sons, [1879].
Physical description
[6], 7-64 pages with colour wood-engraved illustrations, cloth back binding of green rib grain cloth with with green glazed pictorial papers over boards. All edges stained yellow. Green endpapers.
Dimensions
  • Height: 243mm (Closed) (Note: Taken from library catalogue, which rounds up to the nearest cm.)
  • Width: 193mm (Closed)
  • Depth: 13mm (Closed)
Production typeMass produced
Copy number
Copy A
Gallery label
(15/03/2018)
ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOK
Kate Greenaway, Under the window: pictures and rhymes for children, 1878

Images with simple outlines and flat areas of colour could be cheaply reproduced. Coloured wood engravings were made from photographic transfer of the artist's design. The author and illustrator, Kate Greenaway, had worked as a commercial designer and created a style showing an idyllic world of childhood.

Colour wood engraving on paper; cloth back binding, pictorial paper over boards
Written and illustrated by Kate Greenaway (born in London, 1846, died there in 1901); engraved and printed by the firm of Edmund Evans; published in London by Routledge Given by Queen Mary
National Art Library no. 38041996103040
Object history
Booksellers' ticket on upper pastedown reads: "T. Verrinder, 36 High Street Kensington". Ownership inscription in ink on upper flyleaf recto reads: "Mary, 1881". Library's donor bookplate on upper flyleaf verso reads: "This book was presented to the Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum by Her Majesty Queen Mary". Part of the Queen Mary Bequest, 1936.
Other number
60.U.13 - NAL Pressmark
Collection
National Art Library
Library number
38041996103040

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Record createdJanuary 23, 2018
Record URL
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