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After Walter Crane, a set of four Arts & Crafts 'Floras Feast - A Masque of Flowers' illustrations on silk,18 by 14cm, framed (4)

After Walter Crane (British 1845-1915): 'Flora's Feast - A Masque of Flowers', set of twenty-nine chromolithograph book plates pub. 1889, 20cm x 15cm (29) (17 unframed)Notes: book plates missing: 1, 4, 6, 16, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 31, 38

Crane (Walter) Echoes of Hellas, The Tale of Troy and The Story of Orestes from Homer & Aeschylus, with Introductory Essay... Presented with 82 Designs. Folio Lond. (Marcus Ward & Co.) n.d. [1887]. Hf. title, red & bl. title & designs, attractive pict. gilt and red decor. cloth, rebacked (1)

The Baby's Bouquet, by Walter Crane. Decorated by Edmund Evans. Published by George Routledge. First edition 1878. Inner hinges slightly weak but generally very good copy in publisher's highly pictorial boards 7½ x7¼ RARE in this condition. Single vendor book auction. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW. We can ship a parcel up to 20kg which will take approx. 40 books in UK £12, EUROPE £39.99, ROW, £59.99

Slate and Pencil, Vania, The Adventures of Dick on a Desert Island, by Walter Crane. Published by Marcus Ward. First edition 1885. Excellent condition in publisher's pictorial boards 8½ x8¾ . A remarkable copy in this excellent condition. RARE. Single vendor book auction. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW. We can ship a parcel up to 20kg which will take approx. 40 books in UK £12, EUROPE £39.99, ROW, £59.99

The Baby's Bouquet - by Walter Crane. Decorated by Edmund Evans. Published by George Routledge. A Piccola edition published 1974. Publisher's thick card covers 6½ x6¼ . Second revised edition. A nice facsimile of a RARE volume. Single vendor book auction. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW. We can ship a parcel up to 20kg which will take approx. 40 books in UK £12, EUROPE £39.99, ROW, £59.99

The Golden Primer, Part 1, Professor J. M. D. Meiklejohn and Walter Crane. First edition 1884-85. Published by William Blackwood. 32 pages. Very good condition in publisher's pictorial boards 6½ x9 ; all edges gilt. Slight tear to front free end paper. Spine of boards worn on both sides. Small ½ piece missing from bottom of spine. Now RARE. Single vendor book auction. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW. We can ship a parcel up to 20kg which will take approx. 40 books in UK £12, EUROPE £39.99, ROW, £59.99

Walter Crane, 'Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New', 1896, together with two book of Clare Leighton, 'Wood-Engraving and Woodcuts' 1932. (3)

CHILDREN’S BOOKS: Toy Theatre. Pollock's Juvenile Drama: 1- The Corsican Brothers, or the fatal duel. 16pp booklet, Plus 12 coloured sheets; Plus three beautiful hand coloured cards with silk fabric and tinsel (Mrs. H. Vining as Black eyed Susan; Mr. Hicks as Hans Morden Brenner (14x11 cm each); & Mr Dry as Lambro the Pirate 20x16 cm.); 2- Children in the Wood. 12 coloured sheets; Plus: Walter Crane: Cinderella. Routledge new sixpenny toy books, no date. Colour illus; Kate Greenaway: Pictures for Painting. F. Warne, no date. With 8 plates (3 coloured). Original pictorial card covers; [Hedge, Mary Anne]: The orphan sailor-boy, or, Young Arctic voyager. Harvey, Darton, and Co.1824, 1st. Edn? With two engraved plates. PP: (ii), 108, (v) notes, (I) blank, (ii) Publisher's adverts. Later leather backed marbled boards; Plus 8 others. (12)

Painted binding.- Crane (Walter) A Masque of Days, half-title, colour illustrations, bound Japanese style, one or two f. splitting at fore-edge, contemporary vellum, elaborately hand-painted in a classical style with cherubs, urns, sea-horses and vignette landscape views, highlighted with gilt, a little rubbed, slightly splayed (as often), 4to, 1901.

Artists.- Collection of letters, including: Arthur Rackham, Luke Fildes (13), Beresford Egan, Thomas Faed (8), Alfred Fripp, George Frampton, Edward Onslow Ford, Charles Lock Eastlake (7), Harry Furniss (3 letters & 2 APcs), Richard Doyle (8), Alfred Count D'Orsay (3), Lord Dartmouth (ALs to Colnaghi), George Dalziel, Lionel Cust (2), Eyre Crowe, Joseph Cribb (ALs & APcs), Walter Crane, William Holman Hunt, Sidney Colvin, John Collier, Mortimer Menpes, Bernard Partridge, John Hassall, John Gibson, George Richmond, Arthur Blomfield (2), Edwin Landseer, George Gilbert Scott, David Shepherd, together c.  200 letters, folds, many removed from albums, v.s., v.d., 1819-1911 & 1979 (c. 200).

BOOKS: Children's books, to include; "The Baby's Boquet" and Cinderella's Picture Book", Walter Crane, "Thorntree Meadows", (A Lot)

CRANE WALTER.  Mother Hubbard, Her Picture Book. Col. & other illus. throughout. Quarto. Orig. pict. cloth. Bodley Head, n.d.; also 9 further Edwardian & other illustrated quarto children's books.  (10).

DULAC (Edmund; illustrator) The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales from the old French, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, Hodder & Stoughton, no date, 4to, 30 tipped in colour plates, as required, slight occasional marginal stains, cloth gilt; RACKHAM (A) The Springtime of Life Poems of Childhood, by A C Swinburne, Heinemann 1918, 8 colour plates, tissue guards, cloth; STEPHENS (James) The Crock of Gold, London: Macmillan, 1926, 4to, one of 525 copies on hand-made paper, signed by the author, 12 colour plates by Thomas Mackenzie, unopened and uncut, vellum backed boards, dust jacket; SPENSER (E) The Shepheard's Calendar, 12 illustrations by Walter Crane, Harper Brothers 1898, square 8vo, foliate borders, pictorial cloth, tear along spine (4)

A group of late Victorian Sowerby Queen's Ivory Ware pressed glass, including a strawberry jug and bowl set with peacock design after Walter Crane, with another jug and bowl with daisy design and similar daisy design plate, small floral design vase and twin handled basket vase, tallest 7cm. (7)

A pair of Victorian Sowerby pressed glass light blue hanging hair tidies in Aladdin design, after Walter Crane, pattern 1218, length 16cm. (2)

A group of late Victorian Sowerby pressed glass Queen's Ivory items, including pair of semi circular flower troughs in Orange and Lemons design, after Walter Crane designs, length 11cm, together with a peacock pattern twin handled bowl and daisy pattern footed jug. (4)

A group of late Victorian novelty Sowerby pressed glass with designs after Walter Crane, including a white Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy & Bess posy vase, pat 1219, a light blue Old King Cole posy vase, pat 1232, and a light blue bellows in Little Jack Horner design, pat 1285, longest 16cm. (3)

A late Victorian Sowerby pressed glass light blue Orange and Lemons design posy vase, after Walter Crane designs, length 11cm, together with a Sowerby light blue flower basket posy vase with basket weave design and an amethyst malachite twin handled posy vase, tallest 10cm. (3)

A late Victorian Sowerby white pressed glass round twin handled vase in Gathering Apples design, with a rectangular footed vase in Cross Patch design, both after Walter Crane designs, tallest 8.5cm. (2)

Advertising Art Nouveau original vintage poster The Fine Art Society's Exhibition - Water Colours of Flower Time. In the Austrian Tyrol Italy & England by Rosa Wallis. The Fine Art Society are art dealers with two premises, one in New Bond Street, London occupied since February 1876, and given a new entrance facade in 1881 by Edward William Godwin (1833–1886), and most recently fully refurbished in 2004–05, with a new gallery created for contemporary work. The other gallery is in Dundas Street in Edinburgh's New Town (originally Bourne Fine Art, established 1978). The gallery is also known as the pioneer of the one-man exhibition, most famously that of James McNeill Whistler's First Venice Set of etchings in December 1880; the gallery having sent Whistler to Venice in 1879 in part to enable him to escape from the issues following his libel action against John Ruskin. The commission was for Whistler to travel to Venice for three months to create a series of twelve etchings. Beguiled by the city, he stayed for fourteen months and completed approximately fifty etchings. Venice also inspired Whistler to make some hundred works in pastel, of which 53 were shown in the Venice Pastels exhibition in 1881. During Whistler's absence in Venice, the gallery showed his antagonist John Ruskin's private Collection of Watercolours by J. M. W. Turner, and ran a subscription to pay for Ruskin's legal costs: a supreme exhibition of political sleight of hand. Other living exhibitors at the London premises included Sir John Everett Millais, John Singer Sargent, Burne-Jones, Frank Brangwyn, Walter Richard Sickert, Walter Crane, George Washington Lambert, Henry Charles Brewer and Joseph Southall, and more recently Leonard Rosoman, Emma Sargent, Emily Young, John Byrne, Alexander Stoddart and Geoffrey Clarke. Of many memorial exhibitions held, one was for Lady Alma Tadema in 1910.Fair condition, tears in margins, waving, creases. County: UK, year of printing:1910s, designer: Charles R. Stanton, size (cm): 64x49.5

Folio Society - Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, illustrated by Walter Crane (2011) Limited (295/1000) edition.All six books published in three volumes, on corolla classic watermarked laid paper, bound in cream goatskin, blocked in gilt with a design based on Crane's original, in a wooden slipcase (32x24x21cm) covered in maroon Toile Vendome silk, with a sliding tray in the base.The books were originally published in the 16th century by Spenser in two stages. When they were reproduced at the end of the 19th century with Crane's illustrations, the publication was generally acknowledged as one of the most beautiful works of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Walter Crane (1845 - 1915), design for a frontispiece, watercolour, signed with monogram, 17cm x 12cm, framedEven paper discolouration

[Early 20th Century Art and Design Theory] Lilley and Midgley, "A Book of Studies in Plant Form with some suggestions for their application to design", 1903; Walter Crane, "The Bases of Design", 1902; ibid, "Line and Form", 1904; Littlejohns, "Art for All", three vols, circa 1920s

ALLEN, (Olive), The Birthday Present by Maria Edgeworth, re-told by Olive Allen, London and Edinburgh, mostly early 20th century, T.C. & E.C. Jack, also Holiday House, inscribed and dated 1912, CRANE, (Walter), The Baby's Opera, London, Frederick Warne and Co., and Thirty Old Time Nursery Songs, arranged by Joseph Moorat & pictured by Paul Woodroffe, The Animals Rebellion, E.P.Dutton & Co., described by Clifton Bingham, and pictured by Thompson, Mother Goose, illustrated by Frank Adams, Blackie and Son Limited, Harrison Weir's Pictures Wild Birds & Animals, inscribed and dated 1882, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy, 1909, and Queen Silver Bell, 1907, (9)

[Beardsley (Aubrey) & others.] The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, 13 vol. [all published], plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley, Laurence Housman, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm and others, tissue guards, later issue without advertisements at rear, book-label of Tyrell's Bookshop, Adelaide to vol. 1 front pastedown, some light scattered spotting, light browning to endpapers but otherwise remarkably clean internally, original pictorial yellow cloth block in black, vol. 1 & 2 spines slightly dulled and with 1 or 2 nicks to ends, light rubbing, but overall a very crisp and bright set, [Lasner 65], small 4to, Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894-97.*** With literary contributions by Henry James, Edmund Gosse, Kenneth Grahame, William Butler Yeats, HG Wells, and others.

A set of ten dining chairs, c.1880, attributed to Thomas Jeckyll, by Holland & Sons The mahogany frames with ebony inlay and later velvet overstuffed seats, raised on tapering legs.Originally from the billiard room of 1 Holland Park, Home of the Ionides family. The standard chairs 49cm widex 89cm high. The carvers 59cm wide x 90.5cm high. Qty: 10 From the Ionides family by descent. Thought to be supplied by Thomas Jeckyll to Alecco Ionides for the billiard room at 1 Holland Park. Jeckyll undertook the design, decoration and furnishing of the first extension to the house in 1870. The chairs appear in the billiard room in photographs taken by Bedford Lemere & Co. in 1898. The original photos are housed at the V&A.1 Holland Park, the residence of the Ionides family between 1864 and 1898, housed one of London's finest collections of art, crafts, and design. Phillip Webb, William Morris, Thomas Jeckyll and Walter Crane were commissioned to design and furnish the house at various stages.The Ionides family moved in the highest artistic circles of Victorian Britain, mixing with Whistler, Burne-Jones, Rossetti, and G. F. Watts, the works of whom hung on the walls of the house. Paintings and furniture from the now demolished house appear in museums across the world, including the V&A, the Ashmolean, the Fitzwilliam, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259810860_The_Ionides_Family_and_1_Holland_ParkCatherine Arbuthnott, Susan Weber, Thomas Jeckyll: Architect and Designer, 1827-1881, (New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2003)Day. Lewis. F.,'A Kensington Interior', Art Journal (May 1893), pp.139-44. In overall good condition, with minor dents, nicks, scuffs, and scratches commensurate with age and use.The first carver with signs of repair to the top rail. Minor losses to the veneer. The right arm appears to have been later reattached to the back. Further minor losses to the veneer on the arm supports. Signs of patches to the veneer and the ebony in the right arm. The back right leg with notable repairs at the joint to the seat. Further signs of later repair at the join of the right arm to the seat at the front. Replacement patches down the legs. The front legs with dents, nicks, and scratches commensurate with age and use. The third stick-back from the left is somewhat loose at the join to the bottom rail of the frame of the back. Minor cracking in the other two joins. The second carver with a minor repair to the join of the left arm to the back and minor repair to the front right arm support at the join to the seat. The first standard with a glued repair to the top rail and the bottom rail at the back. The back left leg with signs of repair. The second standard with slight losses to the inlay on the back, notable at the join of the stick backs to the bottom rail of the back. The third standard in generally good condition. The fourth standard with signs of repair to the bottom rail at the back and replacement to the inlay. Further losses to the inlay at the join of the sticks to the frame. A minor gauge in the top left of the back. A notable loss to the veneer down the right-hand front leg, approximately 2 inches long. The fifth standard with notable repair to the join of the back to the seat on the right. Some minor losses to the inlay on the bottom rail. Further signs of repair to the join of the top rail to the back on the right. Further minor losses to the veneer throughout. The sixth standard with minor repair to the join of the bottom rail at the back to the frame. The seventh standard with minor losses to the inlay, notable in the top left of the back. The eighth standard with signs of repair to the joins of the bottom rail of the back to the frame. Minor losses to the veneer.

After Walter Crane (British 1845-1915): 'Flora's Feast - A Masque of Flowers', set of twenty-nine chromolithograph book plates pub. 1889, 20cm x 15cm (29) (17 unframed)Notes: book plates missing: 1, 4, 6, 16, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 31, 38

Wilde, Oscar. 1910 The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood. Seventh impression, publ. David Nutt. Publisher's orig. pictorial paper covered boards, wear to the spine incl. discolouration and loss to the head of the spine, joint also in sl. disrepair, front board bright, ownership bookplate of Henry James Lethbridge & inscription of the same to front pastedown & ffep respectively, just the odd spot internally. 8vo.

WALTER CRANE (1845-1915) PREPARATORY DRAWING FOR SCOTTISH WIDOWS CALENDAR, FEBRUARYpencil on paper21 x 14cm; 8 1/4 x 5 1/2in47.5 x 37.5cm; 18 1/2 x 14 1/2in (framed)ProvenanceThe Scottish Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society, Edinburgh (commissioned from the artist) Walter CraneLionel F. Crane (son of the above) The Fine Art Society, LondonExecuted circa 1890. Crane designed a poster, bookmarks and a calendar for the Scottish Widows' Fund.offered for sale without reserve

A collection of six 19th century Staffordshire tiles depicting fairy tales, to include Bluebeard by Walter Crane, some signed B.M.F. Whittingstall and dated 1879, each 21 x 21cm (6)Overall condition is mostly complete. but they are dirty, with surface marks and signs of age. Various chips. Some are inscribed on the back by hand.

Illustrators. Walter Crane (1845–1915) - Scenes from Spenser's Faerie Queene (sic), two, s.l., s.n., n.d., [presumably Chiswick Press, 1895/97], wood engravings, 27 x 21cm, (2) Unexamined out of their frames. Good condition, with some light marginal soiling or creasing.

Art. Six and a half shelves of art history and theory, 20th c and later, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, William Blake, David Cox, Cedric Morris, Modern British, Old Masters, contemporary, Byzantium and ancient art, Aubrey Beardsley, Hogarth and other caricaturists, various further artists, movements and styles, illustrators and print-making, Doré, Goya's The Complete Etchings and Lithographs, Walter Crane, comprising monographs, academic presses and Antique Collectors' Club imprints, gallery, dealer's, and Christie's auction catalogues, mixed numbers of the Sculpture Journal, some design and architecture, including Stillman's English Neo-classical Architecture, 2 volumes, Zwemmer, dj, hb, slipcase en suite, folio; etc., mixed bindings and sizes

Spenser (Edmund) The Faerie Queene, edited by Thomas J. Wise, 19  parts bound in 6 vol., one of 1,000 copies, illustrations and decorations by Walter Crane, contemporary buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, with some original pink decorative wrappers bound in, rubbed, spines faded, joints of vol.1 split, 1894-96 § Defoe (Daniel) The Life and Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe..., one of 535 copies, pochoir plates by E.McKnight Kauffer, tissue guards, frontispiece slightly spotted, original pictorial cloth blocked in silver, uncut, a little faded, 1929; and c.20 others, illustrated, some bound including a volume of Flaxman's illustrations to Homer, Hesiod & Aeschylus bound in green morocco, gilt, by J.Wright, v.s. (c.25)

CRANE (WALTER), illus, EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS TO SHAKESPEARE’S TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA; limited edition, 107/650, signed by Walter Crane and Duncan Dallas, complete with eight black and white plates, green and red folder with gilt detailing, Dent & Co, 1894 (1)Condition Report: One of the tissue plates with two tears at the bottom which goes into the printed frame area of the image. One of the tissue plates with foxing to the tissue under the mount. Other foxing to the mounts here and there. One plate with a small tear to the bottom right corner which does not affect the printed area. General rubbing and wear to the case.

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS; various, including THE OWL, A MISCELLANY, No 1 May 1919 and No 2 October 1919; THE PRINCE OF NURSERY PLAY MATES, Sampson Low; KIMMINS (G), THE GUILD OF PLAY BOOK, part 1 only, Curwen & Sons; CRANE (WALTER), illus, A BOOK OF OLD SONGS, London, Routledge, 1883 (16)Condition Report: Sold with all faults.

Walter Crane (British, 1845-1915), a classically draped maiden amongst reeds, dated 1888, sepia lithograph, 28 by 12cm, framed

An Arts & Crafts silk crewelwork panel, a classically draped maiden amongst foliage with an arched top, in the manner of Walter Crane, 63 by 37cm, framed

Walter Crane: ‘Triplets. Comprising The Baby's Opera, The Baby's Bouquet and The Baby's Own Aesop’, London, George Routledge, 1899, limited edition, number 47 of an edition of 500 copies for the UK (from a total edition of 750). Large oblong 4to (30 x 31cm). Full-page colour plates, decorated letter press &c by Edmund Evans. Original quarter vellum, later cloth backstrip retaining part of original vellum gilt backstrip, new E.P.'s/pastedowns, top edge gilt

° ° Calmour, Alfred C. - Rumbo-Rhymes ... d-page coloured pictorial title, num. full page coloured and other illus. (by Walter Crane); original coloured pictorial cloth and pictorial e/ps. Harper & Brothers, 1911; Streatfield, Noel - Dennis the Dragon. 1st edition. coloured text illus. (some full page); publisher's coloured pictorial cloth and d/wrapper, 1939; Setoun, Gabriel - The Child's World. 1st edition. pictorial title and num. illus. (some full page, by Charles Robinson); original gilt pictorial cloth, edges rough-trimmed, cr.8vo. John Lane, 1896; together with some other illustrated books

° ° Crane, Walter - Beatrice Crane Her Book (the 2nd), June 1st 1879. A Manuscript ....(re-issued), coloured illus. throughout; publisher's gilt cloth. Toronto Public Library, 1983; A Stanley Spencer Almanack....(new edition). num. illus.; publisher's cloth backed marbled boards. Hogarth Press, 1983; Perrault, Charles - Histories or Tales of Past Times. Told by Mother Goose ... cloth backed boards. The Fortune Press (ca.1980); together with others (including other Toronto editions and a few juvenile novels) (20)

Beardsley (Aubrey) and others. The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, vol.1-11 only (of 13), plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley, Laurence Housman, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm and others, some foxing and spotting, original pictorial yellow cloth blocked in black, spines worn and browned, 8vo, London, Boston and New York, 1894-96; and 18 others, duplicates and 2 copies of 'The Yellow Book: A Selection', 4to (29)

A small collection of illustrated books comprising Undine illustrated by Arthur Rackham, The Ring of the Nibling by Wagner, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, the Peacock Pie by Walter de la Mare, illustrated by Edward Ardizzano, king Arthurs Knights illustrated by Walter Crane and Goeth's Faust illustrated by Willy Pogany

[WALTER CRANE / SCOTTISH WIDOWS] a coll'n of bookmarkers, 2 issues of "the Months" with artwork by Crane, (1 lacks March & August; the other lacks December) (Q).

[MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS] CRANE (Walter) illustrator: The New Forest by J. R. Wise, 4to, cloth gilt (head of spine torn); [GOLF] NASH (G.) General Fortescue and Co., 1st Edn., 1936; CROCKETT (S. R.) The Grey Man, 4to, illus. / Large Paper edition of 250 copies, SIGNED BY author, clo., L., 1896 & 4 other vols (7).

Crane (Walter, illustrator). Columbia's Courtship: a picture history of the United States in Twelve Emblematic Designs in Colour with Accompanying Verses by Walter Crane, Boston: L.Prang & Co, 1st edition, [1893], 12 colour plates with text, endpapers lightly foxed, original cream cloth with gilt and blue decoration, some marks to lower board, 4toQTY: (1)

Konody (P. G.). The Art of Walter Crane, 1st edition, London: George Bell & Sons, 1902, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light toning, top edge gilt, original decorated blue cloth, spine slightly loose, boards & spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, folio, together with:Thoreau (Henry D.), Cape Cod, New York: Thomas Y. Cromwell, 1908, 33 monochrome illustrations by Clifton Johnson, some minor marginal toning, top edge gilt, original gilt decorated green cloth, spine very lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plusLaver (James), Whistler, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1930, monochrome illustrations, bookplate to the front pastedown, some minor toning, original cloth in dust jacket designed by Edward Ardizzone, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other modern miscellaneous literature & reference, including history, art & antiques reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, folio/8voQTY: (6 shelves & a carton)

WALTER CRANE (BRITISH 1845 - 1915) SUMMER Watercolour and bodycolour laid to canvas Signed and dated '1895' (lower left) 54.5 x 90cm (21¼ x 35¼ in.) Provenance: Thomas Agnes and Sons Ltd, London Sale, Sotheby's, The British Sale - Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours, London, 15 June, lot 57 Sale, Christie's, British Works on Paper, 21 November 2007, lot 115 Christopher Wood Gallery, LondonLiterature: Art Journal, 1896, p. 62, illustrated p. 60 The Easter Art Annual, The Work of Walter Crane, London, 1898, p.29 P. G. Konody, The Art of Walter Crane, London, 1902, p. 137Exhibited: London, Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, Winter Exhibition, 1895-6, No.200 A figurehead of the Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts Movements, Walter Crane sought to restore the primacy of public painting, akin to Renaissance mural decoration. By synthesising the fine and decorative arts, Crane's practice deconstructed the traditional hierarchy to create cohesive and harmonious visual schemes (1). His wallpaper design for Jeffrey & Co., 'The Magarete' in the V&A illustrates this amalgamation of the decorative and figurative, combining a mythological frieze with lively festoons of daisies. The present work similarly unites the symbolic and the ornamental, by placing an allegorical figure against a rich backdrop of buoyant daisies and dandelions, reminiscent of Crane's 'Meadow Flowers' design from the following year. Crane's Summer can be placed within the popular 19th century tradition of what Hope B. Werness has termed the 'modest maiden' trope, whereby female figures recline in verdant outdoor settings (2). The scene is imbued with the abundance and soporific warmth of the season, draped in diaphanous white robes, the alluring figure of Summer languishes on a soft bed of marguerites. There is a psychological charge to the figure's serene stillness. Surrounded by minutely detailed flora, Crane creates a sensual atmosphere of suspended time, in which the figure and the natural world exist in a state of quiet equilibrium. Previously a member of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Crane was elected to the Royal Water Colour Society in 1889, where this work was exhibited at the Winter Exhibition of 1895-1896. A reviewer for The Art Journal remarked that Summer was 'a graceful piece of decoration entirely characteristic of his curiously learned art', praising the work's 'technical beauties...charm of design and delicacy of colour' (3). 1) Morna O'Neill, Walter Crane: The Arts and Crafts, Painting and Politics, 1875-1890, 2010, p.2-4 2) Hope B. Werness, The Modest Maiden in 19th-Century Art: Evolution of a Theme, 1984, p.7 3) The Art Journal, 1896, p.62 Condition Report: Light undulation to the sheet under the glazed frame. Otherwise the work appears to be in good condition commensurate with age.Condition Report Disclaimer

Crane (Walter) Renascence: A Book of Verse, one of 350 copies, occasional light browning or offsetting, spine browned, edges uncut, Elkin Matthews, 1891; Routledge's New Sixpenny Toy Books: My Mother, full-page colour illustrations, a few repairs to upper cover, a few scuffs to covers, George Routledge & Sons n.d.; Panpipes: A Book of Old Songs, full-page colour illustrations, very light browning, bumping to spine ends and corners, George Routledge & Sons, 1883, light foxing and surface soiling, original boards or wrappers, a few surface marks to covers, some rubbing to extremities; and 5 others by or about Crane, v.s. (8)

Miscellany.- Collection of letters and cards, including: E V Lucas, Walter Crane (letter and 2 APcs) (3); Graham Peel (composer) (7); Sir John Mahaffy (Provost of Trinity College, Dublin), Gerard Fairlie, Alfred Munnings (cut signature); Campbell Bannerman (cut signature); H.H. Asquith (cut signature); Anthony Eden (cut signature); Victoria Eugenie (Christmas card signed), Alma Tadema APcs; Dyson Perrins to Mrs Fox Pitt APcs (book collector); Kurt Atterberg APcs; Sir Geoffrey Keynes APcs and letters (4); Sir Malcolm Campbell (signature); Al Jolson (signature); Jawaharlal Nehru (signature); Laura Knight APcs; Stanley Baldwin APcs; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson APcs; Ralph Vaughan Williams APcs; Yehudi Menuhin (signature); Franz Lehar APcs (composer); Henry Wood (letters and cut signature) (6); Ramsay Macdonald, Henry Moore APcs; together c. 60 pieces, folds, v.s., v.d. (c. 60 pieces).

Crane, Walter - Queen Summer or The Journey of the Lily & the Rose, first edition; Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer-Night's Dream, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1911 second impression; Carroll, Lewis - Alice in Wonderland, illustrated by Millicent Sowerby, 1907; Milne, A A - When We Were Very Young, 1926, thirteenth edition; The Dolomites, painted by E Harrison Compton; and Kipling, Rudyard - Barrack Room Ballads, bears inscription to the front 'This book George took out with him to the front and it was sent back with his kit, July 1916'

Sadlier, Michael "XIX Century Fiction, a Bibliographical Record based on his Collection ...", 2 vols, printed at the University Press, Cambridge 1951, 1025 copies have been printed of which 1000 are for sale, plates, illustrations, dark brown cloth, d-w, vol 2 the d-w has got some staining, both under glassine covers  "British Book Illustration, Yesterday and Today", published by the Studio, "Book-Lore, a Magazine Devoted to Old Time Literature", Elliot Stock, n.d., "Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New by Walter Crane", Bell & Hyman 1979, numerous illustrations, d-w Quayle, Eric "Early Children's Books, a Collectors Guide", David and Charles 1983, numerous illustrations, green cloth, d-w not price clipped  Searle, Ronald "Slightly Foxed - But Still Desirable - Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting", Souvenir Press 1989, inscription on ffep, d-w price clipped, Book Auction Records, vol 91, 1993 to 1994  Thomas, Alan G "Great Books and Book Collectors", Spring Books 1975, d-w  Arrowsmith 1854 to 1954 published by J Arrowsmith 1955, orange cloth "Portfolio for the Christmas Bookman 1929", pictures by Edward Dulac, illustrating poems by Edgar Allan Poe, Bookman portfolio 1918, plates in colour by Edmund Dulac illustrating Tanglewood Tales, both with limp covers (1 box) 

Old sheet music books inc. Baby's Opera illustrated by Walter Crane

Doyle (Richard 'Dick'). 'A Journal... in the Year 1840'. Smith Elder, London 1885 plus six further titles illustrated by Doyle plus Crane (Walter) 'Pan-Pipes'. 2nd Ed. Routledge, London, oblong 4to plus Bluebeards Picture Book, John Lane, London plus Mrs Mundi at Home. 2nd Ed. green cloth oblong 4to. all in used condition (10)

A large collection of disbound plates by early 20th century illustrators including Beardsley, Beerbohm, Harry Clarke, Walter Crane, Detmold, Dulac, Greenaway, Clare Leighton etc., arranged alphabetically A-L in hanging foldersPapers slightly discoloured. Please see new photos.

Walter Crane (British, 1845-1915), Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden colour lithographs: Pansies, Female Ivy, Holy Thistle, Proserpina, facsimile signature l.l. and l.r., all card mounted, 22 by 15cm (4)

VINTAGE CHILDRENS: 5 Titles: RUTH SANDYS: NUMEROUS NAMES NIMBLY NARRATED, London, Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1930; EMETT: SATURDAY SLOW, London, Faber and Faber, 1948; MY FIRST BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES: WALTER CRANE: THE BABY'S OPERA, London, Frederick Warne and Co, ND; KATE GREENAWAY )Illus): MOTHER GOOSE, London, Frederick Warne. ND (5)

Children’s and illustrated. The Adventures of Herr Baby by Mrs Molesworth. Illustrated by Walter Crane. London Macmillan and co 1881. 4to, in original decorated cloth, c1895, oblong original binding, illustrated in colour. R. Caldecott’s Picture Book No. 2. London Frederick Warne. Original decorative binding, First Edition. R. Caldecott’ second collection of Pictures and Songs. With dust jacket, decorated cloth. And two others. [6]

Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Sea Maiden vase, by Walter Crane and William Slater Mycock, on a blue ground, impressed mark 1905-1913, cyphers for Walter Crane and William Slater Mycock, no 2472, H25.5cm (restored)Condition Report:The rim restored (see photographs), otherwise very light and minimal surface scratching

Royal Doulton and Wedgwood collectors plates. Early 20th Century. Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre Series “Demetrius” plate, by Walter Crane 26cm. Royal Doulton Venetian Series plate, with compliments P. McIntosh & Co Grocers 26cm. Royal Doulton Cyprus. Royal Doulton Brittany Fisherfolk.