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Title page for 'A Day in a Child's Life'

Greenaway, Kate, 1881, Publisher's print
Title page for 'A Day in a Child's Life'
Title page for 'A Day in a Child's Life'
Title page for 'A Day in a Child's Life'
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Item no
40013
Title
Title page for 'A Day in a Child's Life', an illustrated children's song book
Description
In the upper half of the page, three children wearing hats - and smocked, frilled and caped dresses and coats, hold hands. Surrounding them is a circle of daisies and buttercups, wound together in a figure of eight. A second line of children, drawn from behind and also in early 19th century dress, complete the lower circle, in the middle of which is the title text. It reads,
'A Day in a Child's Life
Illustrated by
Kate Greenaway
Music by Myles B. Foster
(Late Organist of the Foundling Hospital.)
At the very bottom of the page are the publisher's details: 'Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd. London & New York'.
Artist / maker
Date
1881
Size
24.8 x 21.0 cm
Location
Art and Design Library