Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905.
2. Foster, Myles Birket, 1851-1922.
3. Children's Room Collection.

Description

1. 29, [1] p. : col. ill., music; 25 cm.

Subject

1. Juvenile literature > England > London > 1881
2. Children's songs

Genre/Form

1. Juvenile literature – England – London – 1881.

Contents

1. Waking / A. Marryat -- The lesson / Anon. -- Playtime / W. Hamilton -- Grace before meals / Herrick -- Song of a doll / Charles Kingsley -- A romp / M.B. Foster -- Tired / Somerville Gibney -- Child's prayer / M.L. Duncan -- Sleeping / Anon.

Call number

1. Arents BIP (Greenaway, K. Day in a child's life) AL 02-08

Note

1. Songs, for solo voice with piano acc.
2. Date of publication from Schuster & Engen.
3. Pages [1-2] blank.
4. The ill. are wood engravings, printed in color.
5. Issued in several variant publisher's bindings. Cf. Schuster & Engen.

Indexed in (note)

1. Osborne Coll.
2. Schuster & Engen. Greenaway
3. Spielmann & Layard. Greenaway

Provenance (note)

1. Arents copies: Joan Whitney (bookplate in both copies).
2. Copy in *KH 1881 Day 13-499, inscribed: in graphite, on upper free end leaf, "Presented to Edith Winifred Tremain."

Binding (note)

1. Binding: Arents Copy 1: Publisher's quarter green cloth and illustrated green glazed paper boards (Schuster & Engen 66.1a:"First issue"). Arents Copy 2: Publisher's quarter green cloth and illustrated green-gray glazed paper boards (Schuster & Engen 66.1b: "Fourth issue").
2. Copy in *KH 1881 Day 13-499, *KH 1881 Day 16-430 and *KH 1881 Day 16-435 bound in quarter green cloth with color printed glazed paper boards.

Author

1. Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901.

Title

1. A day in a child's life / illustrated by Kate Greenaway ; music by Myles B. Foster ; engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.

Imprint

1. London ; New York : George Routledge and Sons, [1881]

Indexed in:

1. Osborne Coll., I, p. 63
2. Schuster & Engen. Greenaway, 66.1
3. Spielmann & Layard. Greenaway, p. 286

Binding

1. Binding: Arents Copy 1: Publisher's quarter green cloth and illustrated green glazed paper boards (Schuster & Engen 66.1a:"First issue"). Arents Copy 2: Publisher's quarter green cloth and illustrated green-gray glazed paper boards (Schuster & Engen 66.1b: "Fourth issue").

Provenance

1. Arents copies: Joan Whitney (bookplate in both copies).
2. Copy in *KH 1881 Day 13-499, inscribed: in graphite, on upper free end leaf, "Presented to Edith Winifred Tremain." NN

Binding

1. Copy in *KH 1881 Day 13-499, *KH 1881 Day 16-430 and *KH 1881 Day 16-435 bound in quarter green cloth with color printed glazed paper boards. NN

Connect to:

1. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection

Added author

1. Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905. Printer
2. Foster, Myles Birket, 1851-1922.
3. Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905. Wood engraver
4. Whitney, Joan, 1914- Former owner

Research call number

1. Arents BIP (Greenaway, K. Day in a child's life) AL 02-08
2. Arents BIP (Greenaway, K. Day in a child's life) AL 02-07
3. *KH 1881 Day 13-499
4. *KH 1881 Day 16-430
5. *KH 1881 Day 16-435