KATE GREENAWAY.DAME WIGGINS OF LEE.CAT BOOK 1885 1st ED

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KATE GREENAWAY.DAME WIGGINS OF LEE.CAT BOOK 1885 1st ED

DAME WIGGINS OF LEE, and Her Seven Wonderful Cats. A Humourous Tale. Written Principally by a Lady of Ninety. Edited, With Additional Verses by John Ruskin....and with New Illustrations by KATE GREENAWAY. Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1885. 12mo. Original pictorial gilt decorated brown cloth covers. Illustrated in black and white with 22 illustrations including frontispiece and illustration on title (4 by Kate Greenaway pps. 3, 4, 8, 9). Greenaway supplied four drawings to accompany new verses by Ruskin for this edition. FIRST EDITION WITH K.G. ILLUSTRATIONS. Schuster 64 1(c). Cover shows some wear, ink name on front free endpaper, endpapers cracked at hinges, but overall, a very good sound copy.