Three Programmes Illustrated by Kate Greenaway [cover title] de GREENAWAY, Kate

London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1883. Three Rare Kate Greenaway Concert Programmes including One Unrecorded

GREENAWAY, Kate. Three Programmes Illustrated by Kate Greenaway [cover title]. London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1883.

Concert Hall, Blackheath. Monday & Tuesday, 10th & 11th December, 1883. 4 pp. Colored chromolithograph illustration of a girl in pink holding open umbrella, climbing vine in background. (From Calendar of the Seasons, 1881)
Concert Hall, Blackheath. Monday & Tuesday, 10th & 11th December, 1883. 4 pp. Colored chromolithograph illustration of a girl in blue holding a small fan, tall flowers in background. (Unrecorded)
Concert Hall, Blackheath. Monday & Tuesday, 10th & 11th December, 1883. 4 pp. Colored chromolithograph illustration of a girl in pink holding a basket of flowers, rosebush in background. (From Calendar of the Seasons, 1881)

Square twelvemo (6 3/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 163 x 124 mm.). Unpaginated. Each programme set into a card mount with a protective tissue-guard.

Bound ca. 1910 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in). Full red morocco, front cover decoratively bordered and lettered in gilt, rear cover similarly decorated in gilt, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt-ruled board-edges and turn-ins, blue-gray endpapers, all edges gilt. Front joint expertly repaired.

This unique little book consists of three programmes designed and illustrated by Kate Greenaway for the music concerts given by the Royal Artillery Band, held on December 10th and 11th of 1883, in Blackheath, London. Each of the three programmes are tipped-in to a sunken cardboard mount.

"[Concert Program. London] Marcus Ward & Co. [4] p., including covers. 10.8 cm. Printed on stiff paper. "Concert Hall, Blackheath. Monday & Tuesday 10th & 11th December, 1883"
a). Contains unsigned colored illustration by K.G. of Summer (girl in pink holding basket of flowers, rosebush in background) from Calendar of the Seasons, 1881
b). Contains unsigned colored illustration by K.G. of Autumn (girl in pink holding open umbrella, climbing vine in background) from Calendar of the Seasons, 1881
Both presented by John S. Newberry. (Detroit Public Library 269 (a) & (b), p. 143).

The second card shows an unsigned colored illustration by K.G. of a girl in blue holding ..... in background). This card is unrecorded.