Mother Goose Illustrated By Kate Greenaway

This 54-page hardback album entitled "Mother Goose" is illustrated by Kate Grenaway, the famous 19th-century British cartoonist. It was published in London and New York in 1881 by Frederick Warnes & Co. It presents 44 popular nursery rhymes accompanied by charming illustrations. 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 projects. 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 engraving as many plates as there were colours, and adjusting the plates during the different printings, which few printers in Europe could achieve with the clarity and cleanliness that Edmund Evans could. 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 been enchanting people, young and old, for over a hundred years with her watercolour illustrations of charming and sweet children in their picturesque costumes and idyllic scenes. Greenaway's children are dressed in old-fashioned fashions, in the fashion of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, thus referring to 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 is 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.