Greenaway, Kate, and Edmund Evans (ill.),

Marigold garden: pictures and rhymes [with original printer's block]

London: George Routledge and Sons, [1885]. 9" x 11" pp. 60. First edition, first state of the binding with the front cover illustration repeated on the back cover. Over fifty colored illustrations, many full-page. Ex Libris plate for Estelle Doheny. Edges and corners of book are worn, but overall very good condition. Text is clean with only minor wear to the green end papers. Included with Marigold Garden is an original 6" x 3.5" oblong printer's block by Edmund Evans, depicting "Miss Molly and the Little Fishes" which is printed on page 54. Book and woodblock are attractively collected in a pumpkin orange clamshell case, quarter tan calf over marbled covers; gilt stamping. Item #2682

This copy comes from the library of Estelle Doheny (1875-1958), with her hunter green morocco book label lettered in gilt. Doheny's library in Camarillo, California, "represented one of the rarest book libraries in the United States. Within the collection, 4,000 volumes were rare books and first editions. Fifteen hundred of the volumes were comprised of autograph letters and important historical and literary manuscripts. Early vellum manuscripts such as bibles, gospels, commentaries, liturgical works, and ornamented books revealed the prominence of the collection" (Encyclopedia of Women in the American West). .

Price: $4,200.00