A Day In A Child's Life Illustrated By Kate Greenaway

This 30-page hardback album entitled "A day in a child's life" is illustrated by Kate Grenaway, the famous 19th-century British cartoonist. This first edition was published by Edmund Evans in London in 1881 and was also published by George Tourledge & Sons in New York. It presents about ten songs accompanied by their musical scores and charming illustrations. The book includes a dedication dated January 4, 1882. Born in 1846, the daughter of a woodcarver, Kate Greenaway developed a passion for drawing at an early age. She began by making greeting cards and other small illustration works. When she wanted to publish her own images and texts, her father introduced her to the publisher Edmund Evans. At that time, colour printing still required the engraving of as many plates as there were colours, and an adjustment of the plates during the different printings that few printers in Europe could achieve with such neatness and cleanliness as Edmund Evans. Her first book published in 1879 was a triumph and established Kate Greenaway's reputation as one of the most popular children's book illustrators of all time. She has enchanted people, young and old, for over a hundred years with her watercolour illustrations of charming, sweet children in their picturesque costumes and idyllic scenes. Greenaway's children are dressed in old-fashioned fashions of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, thus referencing an "old time" in a confusion of the individual time of childhood and the collective past. If Kate Greenaway appeals to the pastoral imagination of a society before the industrial revolution, it is out of romantic nostalgia for a nature that was disfigured, in the 19th century, by industry, the railway, etc. Kate Greenaway died in 1901 at the same time as Queen Victoria, whose reign she had accompanied.