A Apple Pie [Inscribed by Greenaway to her Patron, Locker-Lampson, in the Year of Publication]

Greenaway, Kate. A APPLE PIE [INSCRIBED BY GREENAWAY TO HER PATRON, LOCKER-LAMPSON, IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION]. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, [1886]. FIRST EDITION [Schuster & Engen: 1a]. Oblong 4to - 8-5/8" x 10-1/2". Original red cloth backed color pictorial light green glazed paper covered boards with titles printed in red and full color picture of four young girls and a whole lot of apples to both front and back covers with very minor light soiling, a couple of touches of rubbing to the bottom edges, and light wear to three of the corners for what is a lovely copy of the book. Dark blue endpapers with the bookplates of Frederick Locker-Lampson and William Harris Arnold to front pastedown; all edges stained red. [44] pp. A Apple Pie is an alphabet book that pairs each letter with an action that could happen to the titular pie, e.g., A: Apple Pie, B: Bit It, C: Cut It, D: Dealt It, etc., or, as the Library of Congress' description states: "Introduces the letters A to Z while following the fortunes of an apple pie;" illustrated with 20 chromolithographed plates "Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans" after drawings by Kate Greenaway. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY GREENAWAY TO HER PATRON FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION as follows: 'F Locker-Lampson / from / Kate Greenaway / 1886." The condition of the book is VERY GOOD +.
Provenance: Frederick Locker-Lampson (inscribed to him by Greenaway in 1886; his bookplate); William Harris Arnold (his bookplate; his sale in New York at Anderson Galleries on November 10, 1924, lot 378). #001080