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WALTER CRANE "Triplets: Comprising The Baby's Opera, The Baby's Bouquet and the Baby's Own Æsop" with the original designs in colour by Walter Crane, inscribed to the inside "This edition is limited to 500 copies in the United Kingdom and 250 copies in the United States of America No'd in pen 197" published George Routledge & Son Ltd, London 1889 together with WALTER CRANE "Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers" published Cassell & Company Limited, London 1889 (2)

Evans (C.S.) The Sleeping Beauty, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, dust-jacket, a little frayed at edges, 1920 § Farjeon (Eleanor) The Town Child's Alphabet, illustrated by David Jones, 1924; The Country Child's Alphabet, illustrated by Michael Rothenstein, 1924, together 2 vol., first editions, light browning at beginning and end, original pictorial boards, slightly soiled, spines worn and frayed, Poetry Bookshop § Shakespeare (William) As You Like It, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a few marks to upper cover, spine faded, [c.1909] § Crane (Walter) Queen Summer or The Tourney of the Lily & the Rose, first edition, hinges weak, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, soiled, spine worn at head, 1891 § Hill (Oliver) & Hans Tisdall. Balbus: A Picture Book of Building, first edition, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, 1944, plates and illustrations, many colour, a few tipped in, all rubbed; and c.35 others, children's and a bundle of Girl comics, 4to & 8vo (c.40)

Various – Aldin (Cecil 1870-1935) Old Inns, new impression, London, William Heinemann 1921, large 8vo, 149pp, 16 coloured plates and 12 monochrome, black boards, gilt titles and to spine; Cundall (H, M., ISO, FSA), Birket Foster RWS, London, A & C Black, 1st edition, 1906, 8vo, xx + 216pp, 73 colour illus., 78 monochrome, bound colour printed blue boards, gilt titles; Crane (Walter), Line and Form by Walter Crane, London, 1st edn., George Bell, 1900, 8vo, xvi + 282pp, profusely illustrated, pink and white printed endpapers, gilt titles and design on blue boards

CRANE (Walter) A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden, 1899, spine with loss; Queen Summer, 1891; Flora's Feast, 1895; A Flower Wedding, 1905; The Baby's Opera, no date, 8vo; Slateandpencilvania, 1885, worn boards; Pan Pipes, 2nd edition; A Masque of Days, 1901; (8)

Various – Aldin (Cecil 1870-1935) Old Inns, new impression, London, William Heinemann 1921, large 8vo, 149pp, 16 coloured plates and 12 monochrome, black boards, gilt titles and to spine; Cundall (H, M., ISO, FSA), Birket Foster RWS, London, A & C Black, 1st edition, 1906, 8vo, xx + 216pp, 73 colour illus., 78 monochrome, bound colour printed blue boards, gilt titles; Crane (Walter), Line and Form by Walter Crane, London, 1st edn., George Bell, 1900, 8vo, xvi + 282pp, profusely illustrated, pink and white printed endpapers, gilt titles and design on blue boards

A collection of six early 20th century Edwardian illustrated children's works. The lot comprising The Baby's Bouquet by Walter Crane publ. Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd; also The Baby's Opera by Walter Crane publ. Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd; The Magic Fishbone, a Holiday Romance from the pen of Miss Alice Rainbird aged 7 by Charles Dickens publ. The Saint Catherine Press; 1914 The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche with pictures by Dorothy Mullock publ. Chatto and Windus; Under the Window Pictures and Rhymes for Children by Kate Greenaway publ. Frederick Warne & Co.; and The Hole in the Wall by May Byron illustrated by Ernest Aris, publ. Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton. All in publisher's original boards & with condition issues, including loosening bindings, loss to spines, wear to boards & front board of The Hole in the Wall loose but present. 

Beardsley (Aubrey) and others. The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, 13 vol., plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley, Laurence Housman, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm and others, tissue-guards, some spotting and foxing, light browning to endpapers, original pictorial yellow cloth blocked in black, slight bumping and soiling but generally a very bright and attractive set, 8vo, London, Boston and New York, 1894-97.

Beauty's Awakening: A Masque of Winter and of Spring, first edition, one of 250 copies 'de luxe', frontispiece etching by William Strang, 50 further illustrations including four colour plates by T.R. Way, Joseph Pennell, C.J. Watson, Henry Wilkinson, C.R. Ashbee, W.R. Lethaby, Selwyn Image, Walter Crane, Henry Holiday, G. Moira, C. Whall, Wm. Strang, Raven Hill, C.O. Murray, Paul Woodroffe, etc., bookplate front paste down, Ochre buckram by Garner Russell & Co., London: The Studio, 1899. AUTOGRAPH LETTER. Loosely inserted is a signed letter by Walter Crane to Henry Holiday on designed note paper, "My dear Holiday, Mr Ben Grant wants to present our masque with his own company at the botanic gardens, in the open air, sometime next June, & wants to know what costumes etc. are available. He will give us a percentage on the performance which I hope will enable us to pay something back to our Quaestors?. May I trouble toy to tell me if your costumes for Thebes & Rameses, & for Clio are available? also Dante & any others you designed? Would you be willing to lend them on condition of Grant undertaking to return them to you? Very truly tours Walter Crane" dated April 2, 1902, 13 Holland St, Kensington W, 1pp., folded.Endpapers browned, extremities to binding lightly worn, minor staining.

Various – Aldin (Cecil 1870-1935) Old Inns, new impression, London, William Heinemann 1921, large 8vo, 149pp, 16 coloured plates and 12 monochrome, black boards, gilt titles and to spine; Cundall (H, M., ISO, FSA), Birket Foster RWS, London, A & C Black, 1st edition, 1906, 8vo, xx + 216pp, 73 colour illus., 78 monochrome, bound colour printed blue boards, gilt titles; Crane (Walter), Line and Form by Walter Crane, London, 1st edn., George Bell, 1900, 8vo, xvi + 282pp, profusely illustrated, pink and white printed endpapers, gilt titles and design on blue boards

A Walter Crane, Whitworth Art Gallery poster

Walter Crane & William S Mycock - Pilkington Royal Lancastrian - A lustre 'Lion Bowl' circa 1921, ogee form, painted with a band of lions passant facing left, above a heart and rose ground, red and beige iridescent, impressed and painted marks, 2469, diameter 22cm. 

* Crane (Walter, 1845-1915). Nine illustrations to plays by William Shakespeare (eight for the Merry Wives of Windsor, and one for The Tempest), [1893-94], 9 woodcut illustrations printed on thin tissue, printed by Duncan C. Dallas in 1893, in an edition of 600 (Merry Wives of Windsor) and 650 (Tempest), loose in plain paper folder, sheet size 285 x 235 mm (11 1/4 x 9 1/4 ins) QTY: (9)NOTE:Provenance: Estate of Michael Jaffé (1923-1997) art historian and former director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

CRANE, Walter 'Queen Summer. Or the Journey of the Lily & the Rose,' Large paper edition, 46/250, original vellum backed boards chipped and rubbed to extremities, contemporary ink inscription, some light finger soiling to margins, vg, Cassell & Co, London, 1891.

Five modern Rye Pottery figurines and a Sowerby style glass vase, including a golfer and his female companion, 29cm, three figures on horseback from The Canterbury tales series, and a small pressed glass vessel designed by Walter Crane, chipped (6)

Molesworth ([Mary Louisa] "Mrs") The Adventures of Herr Baby,12 wood-engraved plates by Walter Crane, previous owner's ink gift inscription to front pastedown, small marginal tear to front free endpaper, some foxing, slightly rubbed and soiled, 1881; Four Winds Farm, wood-engraved title and 7 plates by Walter Crane, 4 pp. of advertisements at end, inner hinge cracked but holding firm, spine lightly sunned, ends bumped, one corner worn, strip of fading, 1887; Fairies of Sorts, 8 plates by Gertrude Hammond, 2 pp. of advertisements at end, endpapers foxed, occasional light spotting, spine gilt, g.e., spine very slightly faded, ends bumped, 1908, first editions, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight shelf-lean; and c. 35 other first editions by Molesworth, 8vo and 4to (c.35)*** A sizeable collection of the children's books of Mrs Molesworth (1839-1921) who was hugely popular amongst a generation of late Victorian children. Siegfried Sassoon describes Four Winds Farm as 'almost' one of his favourite books in his Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928). 

Various – Aldin (Cecil 1870-1935) Old Inns, new impression, London, William Heinemann 1921, large 8vo, 149pp, 16 coloured plates and 12 monochrome, black boards, gilt titles and to spine; Cundall (H, M., ISO, FSA), Birket Foster RWS, London, A & C Black, 1st edition, 1906, 8vo, xx + 216pp, 73 colour illus., 78 monochrome, bound colour printed blue boards, gilt titles; Crane (Walter), Line and Form by Walter Crane, London, 1st edn., George Bell, 1900, 8vo, xvi + 282pp, profusely illustrated, pink and white printed endpapers, gilt titles and design on blue boards

BOOKS: GARDENING/NATURE (broadly) to include HOBHOUSE, P., 'Gardens of Persia'; STRONG, Roy, 'The Artist and the Garden', Yale UP; SCOTT BOLTON, T., 'A Brush with Brown. The Landscape of Capability Brown', ded. & signed by the artist. And others illus. by Walter Crane, Robert Gibbings etc. 11 in total.

Eighteen assorted children's & illustrated books, mainly late 19th/early 20th Century, including Richard Doyle: 'The Doyle Fairy Book', London, Dean & Son, 1893, 4th edition, 582pp + [2]pp ads at end, 35 b/w illustrations by Richard Doyle, including pictorial half title, frontis, pictorial dedication page and numerous ills. throughout, the majority of which full page, original cloth gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrip, all edges gilt; Walter Crane, 2 titles: 'The Baby's Opera', L, Warne, c.1890, 'The Baby's Bouquet', L, Routledge, c.1890, 2nd edition revised, both with colour illustrations throughout, both cloth backed pictorial boards; Grant Allen: 'Tom, Unlimited. A Story for Children', L, Grant Richards, 1897, numerous b/w ills throughout, original pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt; G.E. Farrow: 'The Wallypug in Fog-Land', L, 1904, 1st edition, b/w ills. by Alan Wright, orig. pictorial cloth gilt (worn); E.V. Lucas: 'Runaways and Castaways', L, Wells Gardner, 1908, colour & b/w plates by F.D. Bedford, original pictorial cloth gilt; Mrs Lysaght: 'Rex Singleton', L, Wells Gardner, 1893, orig. pictorial cloth gilt; plus 11 others including George MacDonald, Kenneth Grahame, Alice Corkran etc (18)

Fourteen assorted children's & illustrated books, including Maurice Sendak, Mervyn Peake, Walter Crane, Agnes Miller Parker, Dylan Thomas, Raymond Briggs, Quentin Blake etc (14)

THOMAS HEATHERLEY (BRITISH 1824 - 1914) THE GOLDEN AGE Pencil and oil on linen over millboard, oval 22.5 x 27cm (8¾ x 10½ in.) Painted circa 1862.Literature: Maas, Trimpe & Gere,Victorian Fairy Painting, (London 1997), p.136 (illustrated)Exhibited: London, Royal Academy of Arts, Victorian Fairy Painting, 13 November 1997 - 8 February 1998 Iowa, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Victorian Fairy Painting, 28 February - 24 May 1998 Toronto, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Victorian Fairy Painting, 10 June - 13 September 1998Fairy painting began in the late eighteenth century with artists such as William Blake and Henry Fuseli who imaginatively illustrated the work of Shakespeare, particularly his more fanciful plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest. It reached its height of popularity between 1840 and 1870, and it was during this time that the present lot was painted (circa 1862). It is unsurprising that this subject matter was so popular during the middle of the nineteenth century. Despite fairies regularly appearing in literature from as early as the 14th century, a revived interest in the work of Shakespeare as previously mentioned, as well as contemporary works such as Kinder und Haus-marchen by the brothers Grimm (published in England in 1823), and Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales (translated by Mary Howitt in 1847), provided a rich source of inspiration for artists, musicians, and other writers. Indeed, so integral to Victorian painting was the topic of fairies, that alongside the most notable artists of this genre such as John Anster Fitzgerald, Noel Paton, and Richard Dadd, other distinguished artists of the day, including Millais and Landseer, dipped their paint brushes into the world of make-believe and folklore to paint at least one notable fairy picture.Thomas Heatherley (1824 - 1913) is perhaps best known as the founder of Heatherley's Academy where many famous Victorian artists studied, including Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Arthur Hughes, and Walter Crane. Heatherley himself attended the Newman Street Art School in 1850, studying under William Etty's only pupil, James Matthews Leigh. Upon Leigh's death in 1860, Heatherley took over the running of the school until 1887, when he retired to Keswick in the Lake District, leaving the school in the hands of his nephew John Crompton. An infrequent exhibitor and painter of mainly genre and figurative subjects, Heatherley's works are seldom seen at auction, with his fairly works being particularly rare.In The Golden Age the influence of Hieronymus Bosch, and Jan Bruegel on Heatherley's work can be seen in his impish figures which dance joyously and mischievously around the seated fairies whilst they play music under a leafy canopy. There is also a reference to the work of Ingres, specifically his unfinished 1862 mural of the same title (L'Age d'Or), made for the Duc de Luynes, Château de Dampierre. A reduced replica of which is now in the Fogg Art Museum, Boston. A second fairy work by Heatherley Fairy Seated on a Mushroom (painted circa 1860) was exhibited alongside The Golden Age in the 1997-98 touring Victorian Fairy Painting exhibition.  Condition Report: Some fine surface cracking. With rubbing and abrasions to the framing edges. Inspection under UV reveals some light, scattered retouching, largely confined to the framing edges.  Condition Report Disclaimer

Walter Crane - Flora's Feast - 1st/1st 1889 Cassell & Company - Rare

[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, ink ownership name to pastedowns, some spotting and foxing, occasional cracking at gutter, light browning to endpapers, original pictorial yellow cloth blocked in black, spines lightly faded or browned with a few small chips to ends, some light surface soiling, little rubbed, still very good and bright set overall, small 4to, 1894-97.  *** With literary contributions by Henry James, Edmund Gosse, Kenneth Grahame, William Butler Yeats, HG Wells, and others.

Six assorted large dust pressed tiles, to include a Minton nursery rhyme inspired tile after Walter Crane, a Minton Brothers Grimm fairy tale tile depicting a line drawing of Cinderella, two Wedgwood seasonal tiles for August and December with figural studies, a Pilkingtons tile depicting the personification of winter and another similarly decorated black and white transfer printed tile, damage. (6)

Crane (Walter) Routledge's sixpence toy books to include How Jessie Was Lost, Adventures of Puffy and Annie and Jack in LondonLocation:

Crane,W.: The Baby's Opera. A Book of old Rhymes with new Dresses. The Music by the earliest Masters. London u. New York, Routledge (1877). Kl.4°. Mit 11 ganzs. farbigen Illustr. und Randleisten zu jeder Seite von Walter Crane. 56 S. Illustr. Ohlwd. (Etw. Gebrauchsspuren). Seebaß I, 430. Kat. Stuck-Villa 332. Schleinitz 33 f. - Eines der erfolgreichsten Kinderbücher Cranes mit reizenden Bildern, gestaltet in Anlehnung an mittelalterliche Buchillustration. - Tls. etw. fleckig. - ╔Dabei: Ders.╗ The Baby's Bouquet. A fresh bunch of old rhymes & tunes. A companion to the "Baby's Opera". The tunes collected & arranged by L(ucy) C(rane). Ebda. (1878). Kl.4°. Mit zahlr. (11 ganzs.) Illustr. v. W.Crane, in Farbe gedruckt v. E. Evans. 56 S. Illustr. Ohlwd. - Osborne 93 u. Baker C. 232.

Crane, Walter: (1845 Liverpool - Horsham 1915). 21 (v. 40 inkl. Titel) Farblithographien aus: Flora's Feast, um 1890. Blgr. 25 x 18 cm. Jwls. mit dem Monogr. im Stein. Enthält die Bl. 3-8,13,14,16,25-28,31-34,36-39. - Über das Erwachen der Blumen aus dem Winterschlaf jwls. mit zweizeiligem Vers. - Vereinz. fleckig.

Fascinating collection of letters from Walter Crane (1845-1915): total of 68 signed letters spanning the years 1890-1914, written to his business collaborator, the pioneering engraver and printer Edmund Evans (1826-1905) and later to his son Wilfred Evans, including a pen caricature sketch depicting Professor Evans and Sons and another of Madame Evans, probably by Walter Crane. NB: The collaboration of Edmund Edwards and Walter Crane was instrumental in the Victorian development of illustrated childrens' books and developments in printing, this important group of letters offer a fresh insight into their partnership, charting aesthetic decisions and financial transactions between them, and the symbiotic relationship between the illustrator and his printer

Liber Scriptorum - The Second Book of the Authors Club. Published 1921 by The Authors Club. Edition limited to 251 copies, this copy is #49. Signed by over 120 authors. Table of Contents reads like a Who's Who of the early 20th-century New York publishing and antiquarian world, with contributions by Charles Dexter Allen, Irving Bacheller, Henry A. Beers, Richard Rogers Bowker, George Washington Cable, Robert W. Chambers, Frank Crane, Walter Phelps Dodge, George Wharton Edwards, John Erskine, Arthur Guiterman, Henry Holt, Ernest Ingersoll, Tudor Jenks, Charles de Kay, George Frederick Kunz, John Uri Lloyd, George Barr McCutcheon, Brander Matthews, Edward Page Mitchell, William Henry Pickering, Ralph Pulitzer, George Haven Putnam, Don C. Seitz, Preston William Slosson, Albert Payson Terhune, Carl Van Doren, Henry Van Dyke, and many more -- a total of 129, each entry (many of which are published here for the first time) hand-signed by its author excepting (according to a note on p. xx) nine in facsimile due to death or blindness. Full brown pebbled morocco with title in gilt. Top edge of book in gilt. Brown end papers. Errata slip bound in at rear. 584pp. Folio. Approximate Dimensions:h. 13.5", w. 9", d. 2.5"Condition:Light wear on boards. Page edges have light staining in places. Pages look clean.

Aldin (Cecil). An Artist's Model, London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1930, signed by the author to the limitation page, 20 colour plates, some minor spotting, top edge gilt, original vellum in slipcase, 8vo, limited edition 182/310, together with:Watkins-Pitchford (Denys J. 'B.B'), The Little Grey Men, 1st edition, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942, 'B.B's' Fairy Book Meeting Hill, 1st edition, London: Hollis & Carter, 1948, Manka The Sky Gypsy, 2nd edition, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper, Down the Bright Stream, 1st edition, 1948, and 7 further volumes by 'B.B', numerous illustrations, all original cloth in dust jackets, some covers slightly rubbed to hae & foot, 8vo/4to, plus Crane (Walter, illustrator), Triplets, comprising The Baby's Opera, The Baby's Bouquet, and The Baby's Own Aesop, London: George Routledge & Sons, 1899, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, some light toning & spotting, rear endpaper partially detached, top edge gilt, original gilt decorated quarter vellum, boards & spine slightly marked & toned, oblong 4to, limited edition 278/500, and other 19th & 20th century illustrated & juvenile litertature & private press, mostly original cloth/boards, some in dust jackets, some leather bindings, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Children's and Juvenile Books. Crane (Walter, illustrator), How Jessie Was Lost, London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. [1868], chromolithographic printing, 8pp, original pictorials, wrappers, creased and starting to split, but OK-good, 8vo, idem., The Three Bears, London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. [inscription dated 1874], a defective copy, original wrappers, heavily worn, 8vo, Robinson (Gordon, illustrator), The ABC of Nursery Rhyme, New York: Sam L Gabriel Sons & Company, n.d. [c. 1920], original pictorial wrappers, 8vo, Disney (Walt), Mickey Mouse and Bobo the Elephant, first edition, Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1935, illustrated, original pictorial papered boards, slight twist, scuffs and light chips, lacks ffep, 16mo, [Ireland] Erin's Hope. Irish Church Mission Juvenile Magazine, January, 1886, original chromolithographic pictorial wrappers, 8vo, Anon, Plenty To Do. Birds' Nest Stories No. 20., Dublin: George Drought, 1884, original chromolithographic pictorial wrappers, 16mo, an Irish chapbook, n.d. [c. 1830], later manila wrappers, 12mo, (7)

Four illustrated works, to include: First edition of 'Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross', published for the Daily Telegraph by Hodder and Stoughton (1915), illustrated with colour plates; 'Flora's Feast, A Masque of Flowers' by Walter Crane, published by Cassell & Company Limited (1899); 'Songs of Innocence' by William Blake, illustrated by Jacynth Parsons, published by The Medici Society (1927), second impression; 'Heraldry and Floral Forms As Used In Decoration' by Herbert Cole, published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. (1922)

World.- Crane (Walter) Imperial Federation, Map of the World showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886, printed to coincide with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886, lithographic map printed in colours, sheet 615 x 820 mm (24 1/4 x 32 1/4 in), old folds, some expert repairs to tears, mainly visible verso, otherwise minor toning, unframed, published as a supplement to The Graphic, London, Maclure & Co., 24 July 1886. 

EX-LIBRIS BOOKPLATE, a cache of Art Nouveau bookplates for William Henry Harrison, in the style of Walter Crane, unused (Q).

WALTER CRANE (BRITISH, 1845-1915) (2)Tailpiece from The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser Book VI Canto III (page 1338 in the 1896 edition, published by George Allen) inscribed by the artist's son, 'This is the work of/ my Father the late - Walter Crane./ signed Lionel F Crane' (verso) pen and ink heightened with white 7 x 11.5cm Provenance Hartnoll & Eyre, 'An Exhibition of Drawings by British Book Illustrators,1875-1925’, 1969, no.3, from whom acquired by the mother of the present owners; Gifted to the present owners in 2011Together withKATE GREENAWAY (BRITISH, 1846-1901)Septemberinscribed 'September'/ from a child/ thou hast/ known the/ holy scriptures/ which are/ able to make/ thee wise/ unto salvation/ which through/ faith in Christ Jesus./ 2 Tim II 14' (centre left)ink on paper9 x 13cmProvenanceThe Fine Art Society, London, May 1968, no. I.5802., from whom acquired by the mother of the present owners;Gifted to the present owners in 2011(2)

Floras Forest by Walter Crane c1899. UK P&P Group 1 (£16+VAT for the first lot and £2+VAT for subsequent lots)

FOLIO SOCIETY: ARNIM, Elizabeth von “The Enchanted April”, illus. Debra McFarlane, 2002; BARBER, Richard (trans.) “Bestiary”, 1992; BEERBOHM, Max “Zuleika Dobson”, illus. by Beerbohm, 1966; BRONTE, Charlotte “Villette”, illus. Clarke Hutton, 1967; CARY, Joyce “The Horse’s Animals”, illus. John Bratby, 1969; DURRELL, Gerald “My Family & Other Animals”, illus. Paul Cox, 2006; EGAN, Pierce “Boxiana”, 1976; EINSTEIN, Albert “Relativity – The Special & The General Theory”, 2004; FINLAY, Victoria “Colour – Travels Through The Paintbox”, 2009 (slip-case); FRANK, Anne “The Diary of a Young Girl”, 2005 (slip-case); GOSSE, Edmund “Father & Son”, 1972; HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel “Wonder Book for Boys & Girls”, illus. Walter Crane, 2008; SAND, George “Story of My Life”, 1984; STENDHAL “The Charterhouse of Parma”, illus. Zelma Blakely, 1977; SADLIER, Michael “Blessington – d’Orsay”, 1983; TURGENEV, Ivan “The Torrents of Spring”, illus. Faith Jaques, 1967; WADDELL, Helen “Songs of the Wandering Scholars”, illus. Joan Freeman, 1982; YU, Lun “Confucius – The Analects”, trans. D.C. Lau, 2008. (18).

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL; A Wonder Book of Girls & Boys, featuring sixty illustrations by illustrator Walter Crane, published by McIlvaine & Co, London 1893.

Maw (George). A MonographoftheGenusCrocus, 1st edition, London: Dulau and Co., 1886, half-title, double-page colour lithograph map, 81 hand-coloured lithograph plates (plate 17 was never published, faint blind stamp to plates), letterpress wood engraved vignette illustrations, toning and spotting mostly to first and last leaves, inscription to upper pastedown 'Presented to the Society by Mrs E. A. Walker, Spencer's Belle View, Bath, 1889', and with bookplates of the Bath Branch of the Selborne Society and Bath Public Reference Library, hinges repaired, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original green cloth with bevelled edges to boards, rebacked preserving original spine (with library classification number in gilt), evidence of label adhesive at foot of upper board, some wear to extremities, large 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Nissen 1316. Considered the finest work ever published on theGenusCrocus. GeorgeMaw was a polymath whose occupations included chemistry, geology, botany, archaeology, watercolour painting and gardening. He was a manufacturer of caustic and other tiles which were exported all over the world. Maw and Company also produced art pottery, employing well-known designers such as Walter Crane. Maw was an experienced plant hunter and accompanied Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker on a plant-hunting exhibition to Morocco and the Atlas Mountains in 1871. He became an expert on theCrocus and illustrated his monograph - the result of ten years toil - with his own watercolours, of which John Ruskin wrote that they were "most exquisite... and quite beyond criticism".

Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, by Richard Wagner, translated by Margaret Armour, 1st edition, 2nd impression, London: William Heinemann, 1910, 34 tipped-in colour plates, occasional light offsetting and spotting, top edge brown, original cloth gilt, some fading to spine and extremities, dust jacket, upper joint split, a few small chips and tears, 4to, together with Pogany (Willy, illustrator). Parsifal or the Legend of the Holy Grail, by C. W. Rolleston, London: Vincent Brooks, Day & Sons, Banbury: Henry Stone, 1912, colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, small presentation inscription, 1919 to front endpaper, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, 4to, plus Crane (Walter). Flora's Feast. A Masque of Flowers, London: Cassell & Co., 1895, colour illustrations, light toning to title, original cloth-backed illustrated boards, one or two small chips to edges, 4to, , together with others illustrated including The Story of Rosina and other verses by Austin Dobson, 1895, Tales of the Canterbury Pilgrims, 1906, and The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1920, all illustrated by Hugh Thomson, others by Arthur Rackham etcQTY: (33)

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)

CRANE, Walter (1845-1915). Renascence, London, 1891, small 4to, illustrations by Crane, boards. ONE OF 500 COPIES. With Voltaire's The Princess of Babylon (The Nonesuch Press, 1927, 8vo, illustrated by T. Lowinsky, INSCRIBED by William Russell Flint). (2)CRANE, Walter (1845-1915).  Renascence. A Book of Verse. London: "Elkin Matthews at the Sign of the Bodley Head", 1891. Small 4to (190 x 140mm). Illustration on the title, the illustrations and ornaments by Walter Crane, 3-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end. Original parchment-backed blue paper boards, uncut. Provenance: [?]G [?]S (old ex-libris sticker with initials). FIRST EDITION OF WALTER CRANE'S ONLY BOOK OF POETRY. ONE OF 500 "SMALL PAPER" COPIES, THIS NUMBER 108 OF 350 COPIES "OF THE ENGLISH EDITION". With Voltaire's The Princess of Babylon (London, The Nonesuch Press, 1927, 8vo, illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky, original vellum-backed marbled paper boards, NUMBER 437 OF 1,500 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed by the artist William Russell Flint (1880-1967), "To Margaret with Dear affection and love from Willie, 3.9.'37." (2)

WALTER CRANE (BRITISH 1845-1915) FOR PILKINGTON'S'Hearing', an important ceramic figural panel, from the 'Senses' series, circa 1900Decorated in slip trailing and painted in colours beneath a transparent glaze, depicting a classical maiden cupping one ear with her hand and holding a lyre in the other, she stands in front of long grasses with waterlilies at her feet and sky and clouds above her head. Framed.Tile from reverse: 77.3 cm x 30.8 cm With frame: 86.8 cm x 46.8 cmFootnotes:A complete set of 'The Senses' by Walter Crane and Pilkington's was shown in Paris at the Exposition Universelle de 1900.Bonhams sold three 'Senses' panels, 'Sight', 'Smell' and 'Taste' in a 'Ceramic Design from 1860' auction, 17th March 2010. It was noted at the time that 'Hearing' and 'Touch' were still unaccounted for.Literature A.J. Cross, Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Pottery and Tiles,, Richard Dennis, London, 1980, p. 27, pl. 22 (for contemporary photograph showing a set of five figural panels. Noted as 'The Senses by Walter Crane, 30 x 12 in. Painted in coloured slips by John Chambers and shown at the 1900 Paris Exhibition.')This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WALTER CRANE (ENGLISH 1845-1915) FOR MAW & CO.'Skoal' twin-handled vase, circa 1890Earthenware, decorated in ruby lustre glaze, depicting two Nordic warriors with drinks toasting their good health, titled 'SKOAL'.22.5 cm highPainted to underside MAW LTD JACKFIELD.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WALTER CRANE (BRITISH, 1845-1915) FOR PILKINGTON'S LANCASTRIAN'Heraldic' vase, 1913Earthenware, blue, green, red, and gold lustre, depicting a heraldic shield surrounded by scrolling foliage and entrelacs, and painted script in Latin 'Medio tutissimus ibus'. Decorated by William S Mycock.29.5 cm highImpressed factory mark, Walter Crane DES mark, with painted William S Mycock mark and date cypher.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WALTER CRANE (BRITISH, 1845-1915) FOR PILKINGTON'S LANCASTRIANLarge and impressive 'Peacock' charger, 1907-1913Earthenware, polychrome lustre glazes, decorated with a male peacock with outspread tail feathers, stylised 'eyes' of the peacock feathers repeat around the border. Designed by Walter Crane and decorated by Charles Cundall. 49 cm diameterImpressed factory mark, indistinct date numeral and 2477, painted Charles Cundall seal with 'PINX' written below and Walter Crane seal with 'DES' written below. With Richard Dennis paper exhibition label to reverse.Footnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, New York, 'The Harriman Judd Collection: British Art Pottery', 22 January 2001, lot 396Exhibited'Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Pottery and Tiles', Richard Dennis, 4-27 June 1980LiteratureA.J.Cross, Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Pottery and Tiles, Richard Dennis, London, 1980, p. 13, pl. VIIIMalcolm Haslam, English Art Pottery 1865-1915, Antique Collector's Club, UK, 1975, p. 27, pl. XIThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WALTER CRANE (BRITISH, 1845-1915) FOR PILKINGTON'S LANCASTRIAN'Night and Morning' figural charger, circa 1905Glazed earthenware, high-fired, depicting two winged figures moulded in low relief.32 cm diameterImpressed Pilkington factory mark to the reverse, with indistinct artist's mark for Walter Crane to the border.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS English and German, including Walter Crane, Cecil Aldin, and an early mechanical book

London/ New York, John Lane The Bodley Head/ Dodd, Mead & Company, (1910). (76) p. Richly ill. w. col. ills. and orig. pict. cl. w. (sl. dam.) dust-j. by Crane. 4to. Spine ends and outer corners sl. worn, but still a good copy w. the very rare dust-j. preserved. (2) The Absurd A.B.C. London, Edmund Evans for John Lane The Bodley Head in London and New York, n.d. (ca. 1900). 7 col. plates (1x double-p.) of the alphabet w. the letters and other details printed in gold and orig. pict. wr. all by Crane. 4to. Spine strengthened w. sellotape. (3) Walter Crane's Picture Book. New York, J. Ottmann for Cupples & Leon, n.d. (1903). (148) p. Richly ill. w. col. ills. and orig. cloth-backed pict. boards by Crane. 4to. -and 1 other ill. by the same. (total 4)

Set of Six Volumes 'Spensers Faerie Queene' Illustrated by Walter Crane, Published by George Allen London 1897 limited to 1000 copies on handmade paper

Eight late 19th Century children's titles, including Walter Crane: 'The Baby's Bouquet', L, Routledge, [1878], colour illustrated by Crane throughout, oblong, orig. cloth backed pictorial boards, plus 2 others Walter Crane; Eliza Keary; J.G. Sowerby & Thos. Crane (ill.): 'At Home Again', L, Marcus Ward, c.1886, colour litho ills. throughout, rebacked original pictorial paper covered boards; W. Ralston & C.W. Cole: 'Tippoo: A Tale of a Tiger', L, Routledge, [nd], c.1886, 27,[1]pp, orig. pictorial wraps (worn); together with 3 others similar including Ernest Nister, plus an earlier 20th Century edition of Kate Greenaway's Painting Book (9)

Children's & Illustrated, 25 assorted titles, including J.M. Barrie: 'Peter Pan and Wendy', London, Hodder & Stoughton, c.1921, 12 tipped in colour plates by Mabel Lucie Attwell as called for, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; Gladys Smythe: 'The Fairy Scales', L, Jack, [1917], 10 colour plates by Catherina Patricchio as called for, orig. cloth, mounted colour illustration to front cover; Peggy Morrison; Anne Anderson (ill.): 'Cosy Chair Stories', L, Collins Clear Type Press, [1924], 1st edition, 6 colour plates + b/w ills by Anne Anderson as called for, bears inscription on half title "To dear Miss Kennedy from A.B.[?] Morrison", large 4to, orig. cloth backed pictorial boards; 'My School Days A Record Illustrated by A.E. Jackson', L, Henry Frowde and H & S, c.1910, colour frontis & title page + 112 decorative/illustrated pages, orig. pictorial vellum gilt worn; plus others Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, Beatrix Potter, Andrew Lang/Richard Doyle, Lewis Carroll 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' 1898, etc (25)

Six late C19th colour illustrated books by Walter & Thomas Crane, including Walter Crane, 4 titles: 'Pan-Pipes', London, Routledge, 1883, 1st edition, oblong 4to, original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards, 'The Baby's Own Aesop', L, Routledge, 1888, original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards, plus 'The Bay's Bouquet' and 'The Baby's Opera', and Thomas Crane, 2 illustrated titles: 'At Home', L, Marcus Ward, c.1881, 'Abroad', L, Ward, c.1882, each original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards (6)

Seven illustrated works. Walter Crane (illustrations). 'King Arthur;s Knights,' early trade edition, original cloth with gilt tooled decorations, rubbed and bumped, decorative endpapers, some spotting and finger soiling, colour plates complete, T. C & E. C Jack, Edinburgh and London, 1911; Warwick Goble (illustrations). 'The Book of Fairy Poetry,' edited by Dora Owen, first edition, original cloth with some loss to head of backstrip, some spotting throughout, illustrations with some tipped-in on titled card mounts, good, Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1920; Esther Singleton and C. B. Falls. 'The Wild Flower Fairy Book,' original gilt tooled cloth with sun bleached backstrip, ex libris label Astrid Boden, spotting throughout, colour plates, The Musson Book Co, Toronto, 1905; Edmund Dulac (illustrations) and Laurence Housman. 'The Magic Horse and Other Stories from The Arabian Nights,' early trade edition, light soiling to original cloth with gilt tooled decorations, some toning and spotting, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1911; With three other illustrated works. (7)

Ephemera, Walter Crane, a set of 12 book marks produced by Scottish Widow's Fund and designed by Walter Crane together with 14 greetings cards designed by him (some with adhesive marks to backs o/w gen gd)

After Walter Crane. A Herald of Spring, print, 24cm x 14.5cm, together with Neptune's Horses, print, 17cm x 24cm. (2)

Follower of Walter Crane, Sanguine drawing, portrait of a young lady, inscribed to a label verso, gilded oak frame, 24 x 20cm

Walter Crane, RWS, British 1845-1915- A Bit in Hardelot Forest; watercolour heightened with bodycolour on buff paper, signed with monogram and inscribed and dated 'Forest of / Hardelot. Aug: 12 1910' (lower left), further signed and inscribed 'com:/ Walter Crane. R.W.S./ Kensington. W./ A Bit in Hardelot Forest' (on an old label attached to the reverse of the mount), bears old labels on the backing board, one inscribed and three printed, 36.5 x 26.6 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Exhibited: London, Royal Watercolour Society, Summer, 1912, no. 95. Note: Crane was one of the most influential illustrators of the 19th century and a prolific producer of children's books (then known as 'toy books'). Together with the printer Edmund Evans (1826-1905), he produced two to three toy books per year between 1865 and 1876, and illustrated renowned titles including 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves' (1873), 'The Frog Prince' (1874), and 'Household Stories from Grimm' (1882). Crane was heavily influenced by William Morris (1834-1896) and collaborated with him on the 1894 publication 'The Story of the Glittering Plain'. He became a central figure in the Arts and Crafts movement and founded the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in 1888. The present work depicts the Forest of Hardelot in northern France, which straddles the villages of Neufchâtel, Condette and Hardelot, near the town of Boulogne-sur-Mere. 

Follower of Walter Crane RWS (1845-1915), ink and watercolour on grey paper, frontispiece for The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall, inscribed verso, 22 x 16.5cm

Walter Crane:  This Little Pig's Picture Book, Edmund Evans; 2 books illustrated by Randolph Caldecott

Henry Gilbert, "Robin Hood and the Merrymen of the Green Wood" illustrated by Walter Crane, 1912