NMLP P-017601 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04
Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children (written and illustrated by Kate Greenaway; her first book both written and illustrated by herself)
Kate Greenaway · George Routledge & Sons, London (engraved and colour-printed by Edmund Evans, Racquet Court, London) · [1879] (undated on title page; published October 1879 for the Christmas trade — see trueFirstNote on the 1878/1879 cataloguing split)
Because the title page is undated, later Routledge/Warne reprints (and the cumulative ~100,000 copies produced, including the French "Sous la Fenêtre" and German editions) can be mistaken for the first. Later printings/issues LACK the three full-page illustrations on pp. 21, 35 and 63 and move/omit the "End of Contents" line from the foot of p.14; the second issue adds printer's ornaments flanking "Edmund Evans" on the title page plus a boy figure on the title verso. The circa-1880 first American edition (Routledge, New York) and later Frederick Warne reissues (after Warne absorbed Routledge's Greenaway titles) are not the first, and modern facsimiles exist. Watch for rebacked/recased boards and supplied spines — common on surviving copies given the fragile pictorial boards and yellow-stained edges; such restoration does not change issue status but should be disclosed.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-017601 for "Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children (written and illustrated by Kate Greenaway; her first book both written and illustrated by herself)" by Kate Greenaway (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-017601, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).