Item #22184 Ring-Round-a-Rosy. Kate Greenaway, on title page.
Ring-Round-a-Rosy.
Ring-Round-a-Rosy.
Ring-Round-a-Rosy.
/Kate Greenaway copies.

Ring-Round-a-Rosy.

Akron, Ohio., Chicago, New York: Saalfield Pub. Company, Saalfield's Muslin Books; [1907]; muslin with sewn down spine, white front (not red, as usual) with children dancing around corn shock, red and blue add for muslin books on back; 5 x 6.5"; 10 interior pages. Toploader fabric.

A sample of the imitations and copying of Greenaway's work in America, where her books were not subject to copyright. Published after her early death. Very nice colour printing on muslin of these rather randomly gathered pictures "in part, based on drawings from the Almanacks" Schuster & Egan, 514 Imitation Cloth Books 1b.

CONDITION: Good; no names or other marks, doubled pages seem to have been glued together and then washed, resulting in a stiff, bumpy surface which cannot be ironed out, cover darkened, interior pages very bright, light fraying. Item #22184

Price: $75.00

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