This rare 2005 edition of Kate Greenaway's "Mother Goose" reproduces illustrations from the rare 1881 edition.
Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was one of the most popular British book illustrators of the Victorian era. One of Greenaway's early successes was "Mother Goose", or the "Old Nursery Rhymes", first published in 1881, featuring such favourite poems as "Little Jack Horner," "Little Bo Peep," and "Jack and Jill" paired with whimsical illustrations of children playing in an idyllic countryside. Her enchanting watercolours evoked the urban Victorian reader's nostalgia for the rural life of earlier times and echoed Greenaway's own longing to retreat to a more tranquil setting than her native London.
Top Story / Robert Frederick Ltd, Bath 2005
Beautiful full colour illustrations throughout
Hardback
Condition: good: cover has some little age related marks but contents are good
