Complete set of almanacs

Lot 198
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Lot 198 | Complete set of almanacs
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Complete set of almanacs

Kate Greenaway, 1883-1897

GREENAWAY, Kate (1846-1901). Kate Greenaway's Almanack for 1883 [-1897]. London: various publishers, [1882-1896].



A splendid complete set of Kate Greenaway's almanacs, very difficult to assemble in this condition and apparently done so at an early date by one Frederick Morkles. This lot is accompanied by an autograph letter signed by Kate Greenaway to Mr. Morkles, Hampstead, 28 November 1888, 3 pp, octavo, in which she supplies him with an autograph and her first almanac and provides a list of all of her books that she can remember to date. In part, "You ask the date of publication of the first Almanack, 1883. I have given one or two to different people, collectors of my books. Will you accept this[]" Also accompanying the set is her Calendar of the Seasons 1881.



Together, 21 volumes, 16mo and smaller, including variant issues for several years of the almanacs, present are:1883; 1884 (3 copies, wrappers, limp morocco, and limp cloth variants); 1885; 1886 (2 copies, green and cream cloth variants); 1887; 1888; 1889; 1890 (2 copies, green cloth and black board variants); 1891 (2 copies, green and red decorated board variants); 1892; 1893; 1894; 1895 (2 copies, board and cloth variants); and 1897. (No almanack was issued for the year 1896.) All illustrated and decorated in color by Kate Greenaway. Original bindings; 9 volumes with original dust jackets (expected small chips to jackets). The whole enclosed in a gilt tooled trunk-shaped morocco case. Provenance: Frederick Morkles (correspondence) – Efram Zimbalist (his sale, Parke-Bernet, 15-16 November 1939) – M.C. Gaines 1894-1947, the comic book pioneer (bookplate to case).

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