The Queen of the Pirate Isle; Illustrated by Kate Greenaway / Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans
London: Chatto and Windus, [1886]. Kate Greenaway. First Greenaway Edition. Pictorial boards. Square 8vo, tan cloth with black lettering on spine & brown and black lettering with rules plus a colored Greenaway drawing of three children on the cover, colored frontispeice by Kate Greenaway and 27 smaller colored illustrations, all edges red, 58 pages. Very Good / None. Item #296
Charming title by Brete Harte that elevates a girl's fantasies of adventure with evocative pastel illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
Overall, a Very Good copy.
Quite tight volume with excellent illustrations. Interior gently age-toned but very clean, clear, and unfoxed. Attractive ink presentation to a six-year old granddaughter on free front endpaper. Cover is slightly rubbed and soiled with a couple of light spots; bruised lower right corner. BAL binding variant (plain endpapers and reddish edges). English printing precedes the American, though both were printed and bound in Great Britain.
Price: $195.00