259. [Greenaway (Kate)] Aunt Louisa's Birthday Gift Book, comprising Hop-o'-my-Thumb, sing-a-Song of Sixpence; King, Queen, and Knave of Hearts; The Fairy at the Fountain or The Two Girls, 4 separately published works in one vol., the first and third with each with 5 plates, one double page, the second and fourth each with 6 coloured plates, original pictorial cloth gilt, new endpapers, 4to, Frederick Warne and Co. , [c.1875].
est. £250 – £350
The fourth work in this volume is an unrecorded printing of Charles Perrault's Diamonds and Toads with a new title. The illustrations are some of the earliest by Kate Greenaway, first appearing separately under the tale's original title in 1871, also with three other titles in Aunt Louisa's Nursery Favourite .