Author: Greenaway, Kate (Illustrator).
Title: UNDER THE WINDOW. Pictures & Rhymes for Children.
Description: Frederick Warne & Co., N.d. c.[1930]. Later Printing with 6 of the original 50 poems omitted. Slim Royal 8vo. 56pp. Colour ills. throughout engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Text enclosed in ruled border. Colour dec. e.ps. browned to f.e.ps., original green lettered white cloth backed colour illus. olive & cream boards, lightly soiled and rubbed, sl. waterstain to top edge of upper board, spine lightly browned and sl. bumped at head and tail with lettering sl. rubbed. ¶ With a coloured illustration of a boy in green on verso of title page. ‘The first book in which Kate Greenaway combined her literary and artistic talents. It was an immediate success and established her reputation in Great Britain, Europe, and North America. It gave rise to a host of imitations, to Miss Greenaway's keen distress. Six of the fifty poems, with their illustrations, were deleted from later Warne editions’ Osborne pp.64.

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