Plate 8 opposite page 138 in the book The Quiver of Love, a Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern by various authors (London and Belfast: Marcus Ward & Co., 1876)

1876

Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane

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Artists: Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane
Author: Multiple Authors
Publisher: Marcus Ward & Co.
Title: Plate 8 opposite page 138 in the book The Quiver of Love, a Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern by various authors (London and Belfast: Marcus Ward & Co., 1876)
Date: 1876
Object Type: Print
Medium: color lithograph
Dimensions: 218 x 165 mm (8 9/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Accession Number: 1963.30.38700.9

Provenance: Moore S. Achenbach.
Small embossed stamp in upper right margin of letterpress title: with the publishers' compliments.
IUC on half-title: To my daughter Anne / on the eve of St. Valentine 1876 / with a father's love / from J. Whitaker
Remarks: Poets in the anthology include, from the List of Authors: Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Burns, Byron, Coleridge, Dryden, Heine, Herrick, Longfellow, Marlowe, Christina Rossetti, Shakespeare, Shelley, Sir Philip Sidney, Spenser.

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