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Walter Crane (1845-1915), ‘Der Triumph der Arbeit’ (The Triumph of Labour), a print on cream paper c.1891, printed Heinrich Scheu and Walter Crane with cypher, ‘Uitgave - Ontwikkeling - Amstredam’ A German language version print of the Worker’s parade poster designed to commemorate the International Labour Day, 1st May 1891, designed by Crane and after the woodcut by Henrich Scheu, depicting an allegorical representation on the subject of socialism, work, freedom with various banners; glazed and painted black oak frame Frame 55.2 cm high, 103.4 cm wideA few old marks, smudges to border. Frame possibly original, paper covering on the back has been removed. Some rubbing and wear to the oak frame.

WILLIAM DE MORGAN (1839-1917) ARTS & CRAFTS SIX-TILE PANEL, CIRCA 1880the tiles painted with a vase of flowers entwined by a serpent, within an ebonised wood frame(50cm x 35cm)Footnote: Exhibited: William De Morgan Exhibition, Leighton House, London, 18 May - 24 June 1972, No. 50. (part) Literature: Greenwood, M. The Designs of William De Morgan, Richard Dennis 1989, p. 180, pl. 458 (design drawing illustrated) Provenance: Metford Warner The Roger Warner Collection, Christies, 20th January 2009, lot 225 Private Collection, London Note: Metford Warner (1843-1930) owned the wallpaper manufacturing company Jeffrey & Co., and contributed to the change away from French taste in wallpaper design employing designers such as Walter Crane, Owen Jones, Charles Eastlake, William Burges and Edward W. Godwin to produce designs for wallpapers. His grandson Roger Warner was a renowned antique dealer based in Burford Oxfordshire who directed taste towards objects that previously had been disregarded or even derided, ensuring that popular, regional and vernacular arts, whether wooden furniture, pottery, treen, metal-wares, textiles and domestic utensils, were saved and studied. The Tiles of William de Morgan There had not been a tile-making tradition in England since the reformation and it was not re-introduced until the 1830s, at the beginning of the great period of Victorian church building and restoration. Initially confined to tiling for floors by the 1870s the market for decorative tiles was enormous, and virtually every new building project incorporated a tiled element of one sort of another, extending in some cases to the walls and even the ceilings. It was in this burgeoning market that the renowned Arts & Crafts ceramicist William de Morgan (1839-1917) made his name. The eldest of seven children, de Morgan was born in 1839 and showed early promise as an artist. During his formal education at the Royal Academy Schools he met influential artists like Simeon Solomon and Henry Holiday. In 1862 Holiday introduced de Morgan to William Morris who was to become a life-long friend and collaborator and who offered him a job. Morris & Company was only two years old at this point and de Morgan began with the firm designing stained glass with Burne-Jones and also decorating tiles, to the designs of Morris. During his work with glass De Morgan noticed that if silver nitrate stain was fired at the wrong temperature on the glass it would reduce and produce an iridescence on the surface. Fascinated by this lustrous effect he began experimenting with glass and ceramics, buying blank tiles and plates, decorating and firing them in a makeshift kiln at his home in Fitzroy Square, which subsequently burnt the roof off. Doubtless this unfortunate event precipitated a move to Chelsea in 1872, marking the end of his stained glass career. It also marked the beginning of his own business producing tiles and other ceramics to his own designs. De Morgan went on to produce tiles for many large commissions. After his period at Merton Abbey he moved the business nearer to his home at Fulham. By the turn of the century his designs had fallen out of fashion and he stopped production in 1907 lamenting that “All my life I have been trying to make beautiful things...and now that I can nobody wants them.” Despite this setback he managed to change his career late in life and became a successful novelist. His tile designs can broadly be categorised as plants and flowers, usually of Middle Eastern influence; exotic or fantastical animals and medieval galleons at sea, of which there are several fine examples of each type in this sale.

ENGLISH SCHOOL, MANNER OF WALTER CRANE ARTS & CRAFTS EMBROIDERED PANEL, CIRCA 1880worked in coloured threads and silks on a linen ground, depicting a Classical harvest scene, later framed(24cm x 136cm)

ENGLISH SCHOOL, MANNER OF WALTER CRANE FOR LIBERTY & CO., LONDON ARTS & CRAFTS COPPER PANEL, CIRCAcopper, embossed with a relief scene of putti in a sailing ship, later framed(54cm x 114cm)

COLLECTION OF BOOKS & PRIVATE PRESS PUBLICATIONS .including Walter Crane, illustrator. The History of Reynard the Fox. London: David Nutt, 1897. 8vo; Moller, Muriel. Wood-carving designs, a portfolio of six sheets of facsimile drawings with a foreword by Walter Crane; Ashbee, C.R. Craftsmanship In Competitive Industry. Essex House Press, 1908, 8vo, original quarter cloth; Jameson (Anna). Legends of the Madonna, Unit Library Ltd. 1904; Walter Crane: 'The Decorative Illustration of Books. London, 1905; Eric Gill. The Law the lawyers. Concerning dragons. both St Dominics Press, Ditchling; Sculpture and the living model. Sheed & Ward; and Unemployment. Faber & Faber; In Praise of Bishop Valentine. London, Chiswick Press, 1893, octavo, one of 125 copies printed on hand-made paper, title in red and black, engraved frontispiece of a pair of lovers, original vellum jacket with silk ties; Golden Cockerel Press. A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret by Charles Lamb, 1928, port. frontis., orig. vellum backed boards, small 8vo (ltd. ed. 137/500); Keats. Odes. De La More Press; The Essays of Sir Roger De Coverley. The Bibelots. J. Potter Briscoe, Ed. vellum covers, limited edition 14/60, published by Gay and Bird, 1901; The book of Ruth, private press, orig. vellum backed boards; Gregynog Press. Bones (Thomas Gwynn) Elphin Lloyd Jones, printed in red, blue and black, illustrations, original boards, 4to, Privately Printed, 1929; Virgil an address to the boys of Sevenoaks School Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Cambridge University Press 1930;

WALTER CRANE (1845-1915) FLOWERS FROM SHAKESPEARE'S GARDEN: A POSY FROM THE PLAYS, CIRCA 1906group of TWELVE FRAMED PRINTS, two mounted in each frame(each 22cm x 16cm)

Pair of Arts & Crafts pokerwork panels depicting Pre-Raphaelite ladies in the manner of Walter Crane for Morris & Co

A PAIR OF ARTS AND CRAFTS WALLPAPER FRIEZES, IN THE MANNER OF WALTER CRANE, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, each depicting rustic scenes of children. Overall 36.5cm by 70.5cm

Walter Crane: 'The Baby's Opera', London, Warne, circa 1900, coloured illustrations throughout, original cloth backed pictorial boards; Arthur Rackham (illustrated): 'J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens', Hodder, 1937 reprint, 6 coloured plates as called for, original cloth; J & A Taylor: 'Little Ann and other poems', illustrated Kate Greenaway, London, Routledge, circa 1882, coloured illustrations throughout, original half cloth, pictorial boards, plus 3 other Kate Greenaway illustrated books circa early 1900's, 'Marigold Garden' & 'Under the Window' (2 copies), each 4to, original cloth backed pictorial boards (6)

§ William Ratcliffe (British 1870-1955) The Red Curtain, circa 1916 signed (lower right), oil on canvas(48.5cm x 49cm (19in x 19.3in))Footnote: Exhibited:The Goupil Gallery, London, The London Group, 1916, no.114.See R. Allwood, William Ratcliffe: paintings, prints and drawings, North Hertfordshire, 2011. The intimate domestic space and atmosphere in The Red Curtain instantly places this work amongst the Camden Town Group and their distinctive palette. As the critic Frank Rutter noted:'tainted with the disease of purplitis. Messrs. Spencer Gore, Robert Bevan, William Ratcliffe, and many others of this group of artists, who attach themselves with real passion to the pictorial interpretation of their own daily surroundings and of modern life, all look up on the world with purple spectacles.'(Frank Rutter, The Observer, 14 July 1912, p.9.)Born near King’s Lynn, Ratcliffe grew up in Manchester where his father worked in the Mills. After leaving school Ratcliffe attended Manchester School of Art, partly studying under Walter Crane and by 1901 he was working as a wallpaper designer. The family moved to the new Garden City of Letchworth by 1906, perhaps tempted by the social idealism that was a central tenet of this new society and an emphasis on cooperative working. In 1908, the artist Harold Gilman (1876-1919) and his family moved to Letchworth as a neighbour of the Ratcliffe's and soon after Gilman became a mentor to Ratcliffe. By 1910, Gilman had introduced Ratcliffe to the members of the Fitzroy Street Group, and persuaded him to abandon his career as a pattern designer at the Wallpaper Manufacturers Combine, propelling him to a professional artist. When the Fitzroy Street Group had been succeeded by the Camden Town Group, Ratcliffe was nominated by Gilman and ended up exhibiting in all three Camden Town exhibitions.In The Red Curtain the heavy impasto handling of paint and compositional form of the interior particularly show the influence of Gilman, who alongside Charles Ginner had been investigating the use of thickly applied paint and a pronounced impasto throughout their Camden Town works. The curtains, wall hanging, and patterned rugs also hark back to his time as a wallpaper designer. The result in The Red Curtain is a harmony of colours, touches of green, next to pinks, purples and blues heightening the cool tone of the interior, with strokes of orange adding warmth. As a whole it produces a work clearly indebted to the Post-Impressionist movement that was sweeping through the British avant-garde art scene at this particular moment in time.Ratcliffe was constantly on the move, living an itinerant existence and altering his lodgings almost on a yearly basis, periodically staying with family and friends, which makes pinning down the exact location of most of his domestic works difficult. However, in this work there are close compositional similarities to The Artist’s Room, Letchworth in The Tate Gallery collection, with similar furnishings, curtains, wall hangings, rugs and art & crafts furniture, and a day bed running underneath the hanging which suggest that the present work shows the sitting room where Ratcliffe stayed at 102 Wilbury Road in Letchworth Garden City, the home of Stanley and Signe Parker. This could in fact be a more finished example of the Tate Gallery’s work, although taken from a different angle.102 Wilbury Road was designed in the arts and crafts tradition for the Parker family in 1908, by Stanley Parker’s brother Barry Parker (1867-1947) and his partner Raymond Unwin (1863-1940), who were the quintessential arts & crafts architects of Letchworth, and Wilbury Road is considered a major and complete example of their best work in the Arts & Crafts idiom. The arts and crafts elements of the interior are clearly evident in The Sitting Room, including a Clissett ladderback armchair, an oak circular table (a similar model table can also be found in Cottage Interior, circa 1914, also identified in a photograph of the Interior of the Parker’s home, circa 1909), and overall the scene depicted reflects a relaxed and simple life that many of the occupants of the Garden City aspired to.Like Ratcliffe, Stanley Parker had also studied at the Manchester School of Art, and it was possible that they became friends at this point. Ratcliffe is noted as staying with the Parkers at Wilbury Road at least twice, between 1930-2 and 1946-54, but the fragmentary nature of Ratcliffe’s life and the particular colour palette make it possible that The Sitting Room was painted on an earlier stay. It is remarkable and a reflection on Ratcliffe’s talents as an artist, that although he was perpetually on the move without a home of his own, he manages to create a warmth and intimacy in The Sitting Room, and an authentic depiction of a domestic space that also positions him as a significant painter in the Camden Town grouping. As N. D. Deuchar noted in the artist’s obituary '...his subjects were quiet and perhaps almost tame, but he had such exactitude and care in handling the shapes of building and apparatus, as well as great skill in laying his colour, that he was marked out as a true artist.' (N.D.Deuchar, The Citizen, 21 January 1955)

Walter Crane: an Arts & Crafts coloured book plate from Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden, depicting personifications of Savorie and Majoram

WALTER CRANE ILLUSTRATIONS. 'Cinderella's Picture Book'. Col plates complete, original cloth, some staining, c1899; ARTHUR HUGHES ILLUSTRATIONS. 'Babies' Classics'. Plates complete, original cloth gilt, 1904, vg.

A collection of eight Mintons wall tiles, comprising three Nursery Rhyme tiles designed by Walter Crane, and five similar, each 15.5cm square (a/f)

FOUR WEDGWOOD OUTLINES OF GRANDEUR PLATES WITH DESIGNS BY LAURENCE WHISTLER PRINTED IN BLACK WITHIN GILDING. Dia. 26.5cms. TOGETHER WITH A PLATE DECORATED WITH A WALTER CRANE LADY WITH A WATERING CAN. Dia. 23.5cms.

Rothenstein (William, 1872-1945). English Portraits. A Series of Lithographed Drawings, published by Grant Richards, 1898, 24 lithographic portraits including Hardy, Gissing, Henry James, Walter Crane, Ellen Terry, and others, additional photogravure portrait of George Bernard Shaw from a photograph by Dorothy Hickling loosely inserted, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original buckram gilt, rubbed, folioQty: (1)NOTESOne of 750 copies, this copy with a signed pencil dedication to George Bernard Shaw: 'To G.B.S. Greetings! Will Rothenstein 98'.Amendment: We now believe that the pencil inscription to G.B. Shaw from the author is not in the hand of William Rothenstein, but an anonymous contemporary or near-contemporary owner, who has also inscribed the front endpaper.

Crane (Walter, illustrator). Spenser's Faerie Queene, A Poem in Six Books; with the Fragment Mutabilitie, edited by Thomas J. Wise, 6 volumes, 1st edition, London: George Allen, 1897, decorative titles, numerous woodcuts, some full-page, original pink part wrappers bound-in, occasional spotting and toning but generally bright and clean, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary dark green half morocco, gilt decorated spines with red onlay decorative motif, joints and extremities slightly rubbed, 4toQty: (6)NOTESLimited edition, one of 1000 copies.

[John Piper] Stained Glass History, Technology and Practice by E. Liddall Arrmitage with 117 plates 1960 first edition Ex. Libris John & Myfanwy Piper with decorated bookplate, Embroidery or the Craft of the Needle by Townsend with Preface by Walter Crane 1907, Nature and Ornament II by Lewis F. Day 1909 first edition (3)

An early Pilkington's Lancastrian Maiden vase designed by Walter Crane, shape no.2089, tall, shouldered form, modelled in low relief with three dancing classical maidens in a formal garden setting, glazed matt olive over orange impressed early P mark, 33.5cm. high Provenance The Bill Coles collection.

Walter Crane (1845-1915) Summer, pen and ink on paper, framed 55 x 30.5cm. Provenance: Campbell Wilson, Private collection.

CRANE (Walter) illustrator: Story of Greece by Mary Macgregor, 4to, 19 col. plates, pictorial cloth, L., n.d.; Souvenir de Paris, foldout extending multi-image, cloth covers, [Leipzig, Glaiser, ca. 1870]; & misc. lit. (9).

Crane, Walter - Queen Summer; or, The Journey of Lilly and the Rose, large qto, quarter vellum (loss of 8cms at spine foot), with 40 colour plates, Cassell & Co, London 1891 and Dodgson, Campbell - The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, large qto, quarter vellum, with 96 plates, The Studio, London 1922 (2)

Crane, Walter - A Flower Wedding, Described by Two Wallflowers, 1st edition, qto, original, cloth backed boards, London 1905; Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden, 1st edition, original cloth backed boards, London 1906 and De Monvel, M. - Boutet-Vieilles Chansons Pour Les Petits Enfants ... Paris, n.d. (3)

A late 19th Century Sowerby Queens Ivory Cream and Sugar set after designs by Walter Crane with a border of Peacocks to a garden setting, together with a similar daisy pattern cream jug and a small black glass John Derbyshire recumbent hound. (4)

[CHILDRENS]. ILLUSTRATED Crane, Walter. Queen Summer: or The Tourney of the Lily & the Rose, Cassell & Co., London, 1891, cloth-backed pictorial boards, illustrations by the author throughout, eight-page publisher's catalogue, quarto; and Crane, Walter. Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers, Cassell, London, 1889, cloth-backed pictorial boards, illustrations by the author throughout, small quarto (both with rubbed edges), (2).

Collins (Wilkie). Works, Library Edition/New Editions, 29 volumes, London: Chatto & Windus, 1875-1901, illustrations by Walter Crane and others, a few minor spots, bookplates of Andrew Carnegie, top edge gilt, contemporary red half morocco by Henry Sotheran & Co., spines with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, 8voQty: (29)NOTESA handsome set of Wilkie Collins' works, formerly in the library of Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919).

A rare Arts and Crafts Walter Crane damask linen set,with a fruiting tree and swan design, all embroidered in the border with 'Designed by Walter Crane, London' and also monogrammed on one corner with the initials 'B.A.M.', comprising:a tablecloth, 335cm long approxmately, andfour place mats, 66cm square (5)Condition report: Table cloth has a small section that has been repaired.

Set of six volumes ' Spenser's Faerie Queene ', illustrated by Walter Crane, published George Allen, London 1897, limited to 1000 copies on hand made paper, green leather and linen bound

Walter Crane. line and form published by George Bell and Sons London. 1900.original blue gilt cloth binding, loose on spine, but complete. 4to. Large amount of line drawings enclosed within, executed by Walter Crane, and others. Slight foxing to a few pages, a good reference book for students and artists alike..

Crane (Walter) Walter Crane's Picture Book, one of 750 copies printed in colours by Edmund Evans, illustrations, some full-page, decorations, light water-staining to upper outer corner of last few leaves, endpapers spotted and stained, original parchment-backed cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, lightly faded and stained, 4to, 1900.

Kelly, Arthur: The Rosebud and Other Tales: Pictured by Walter Crane. T. Fisher, London. 1909. Together with a music box photo album

Collection of children's books, including Straparola - The Nights, illustrated by E. R. Hughes, 1894, numbered from limited edition of 210, works by Caldecott, Andrew Lang, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, John Hassall and others.

PICTURES AND PRINTS ETC, to include Parisian scene oil on canvas, by T.Cavon?, Ivan Lackovic prints, Walter Crane prints, other assorted prints, a wooden carved relief panel of a Buddha face, gilt framed bevel edged mirror, oval mirror etc, largest approximate size 74cm x 106cm (box and eight loose)

WILDE, Oscar, The Happy Prince and other Tales, Walter Crane, Illus. Jacomb & Hood. London 1888. red title with vignette on ivory bds, foxed and splits. 8vo.

EDMUND SPENSER: SPENSER'S FAERIE QUEENE, ed Thomas J Wise, ill Walter Crane, London, George Allen, 1894-97 (1000), 1st edition, 19 original parts complete, 4to, original printed wraps, ex-part 3 lacks most of top wrap, part 8 lacks top wrap and lower wrap with part loss, part 1 top wrap nibbled, most parts with wraps detached (19)

FANNIE ATTWILL FOSTER "COUSIN FANNIE" (TRANS): EVERY BEGINNING IS EASY FOR CHILDREN WHO LOVE STUDY, Boston, Mass, Phillips Sampson & Co, 1856, 1st edition, 7 coloured lithoplates, 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards worn and soiled, not on COPAC + WALTER CRANE (ILL): A MASQUE OF DAYS FROM THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA, London, Paris, New York and Melbourne, Cassell & Co, 1901, 1st edition, original pictorial boards worn + ELEANOR SMITH: SONG DEVICES AND JINGLES, ill Florence Young, S B Pearse and Kathleen Nixon, London, Waverley Book Co, ND, 7 (of 8) coloured plates, 4to, original cloth backed boards, pictorial paper label worn (3)

Two antique books- The Baby's Bouquet and The Baby's Opera by Walter Crane.

A collection of Children's and Illustrated titles including Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane, Arthur Ransome etc.

Five Victorian Maw & Co. nursery tiles by Walter Crane 1874

Books - Two Antique Books, Line & Form by Walter Crane & The Styles of Ornament by Speltz & Spiers. Line & Form published by George Bell & Sons of London, Circa 1900, 191 illustrations. Spine loose. The Styles of Ornament published by Bruno Hessling of New York circa 1910. Hard backed with 3500 examples from prehistoric times, to the middle of the XIX century, with 400 full page illustrations.

Various editions of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes including:-"Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales", ills by Sir John Gilbert, John Tenniel, Harrison Weir, Walter Crane, W McConnell, J B Zwecker and others, George Routledge & Sons nd, numerous ills throughout text, front hinge cracked, red pictorial cloth and gilt titles"Mother Goose Rhymes" with colour pictures by S B Pearce and line drawings by Winifred M Ackroyd, J Coker & Co Ltd, reprinted October 1932, colour frontis, vignette on tp, black and white ills throughout, colour plates, pastedown pictorial boards, pencil inscription on ffep, dj repaired and cut at bottom end of spineRobinson, Charles (ills) "Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, Proverbs and Rhyme Games", forward by Lawrence Alma Tadema, The Children's Press, colour frontis, colour plates, black and white ills throughout, pictorial boards, very clean and bright, glassine cover, with its original dj - chipped and worn but not price clipped,in a slip coverFisher, Arthur O. and Hart, Frank"Master Toby's Hunt", Country Life 1934, black and white ills, vignette on tp, frontis, yellow cloth, black pictorial image and black titles, dj not price clipped within a glassine coverWillebeek Le Mair (ills) "Little Songs of Long Ago ...", the original tunes harmonised by Alfred Moffitt, publ Augener Ltd, London 1912, colour plates, oval pictorial pastedown with gilt titles, small oblong folio "Old Dutch Nursery Rhymes", publ Augener Ltd 1917, colour plates, music scores, blue cloth, pictorial pastedown to front board, gilt titles, small oblong folio (6) 

Pictures and Prints - After Walter Crane, a set of six Aesthetic Movement prints

WALTER CRANE. "Walter Crane's Picture Books." Vols 1, 2, & 3; plus "Walter Crane's Picture Books Large Series." Vol I. all with col plts printed by Edmund Evans comp, orig individual wps bound in orig pict cl, 4to, 1895-1900, vg condition.

* Crane (Walter, 1845-1915). The Dance of the Nymphs & The Reaper/Ferdinand Most Sure, The Goddess on Whom These Airs Attend (from The Tempest by William Shakespeare), two woodcuts on paper, image size 19.5 x 14cm (7.75 x 5.5ins), both framed and glazed (Qty: 2)

In the manner of William De Morgan, an early 20th century Arts and Crafts style red lustre pottery tile with hand painted floral and foliate decoration, raised mark for J C Edwards and number '167' to base, 15.3cm x 15.3cm, with a J C Edwards tile decorated with a raised green glazed floral pattern in the manner of C F A Voysey, raised maker's mark to base, 15cm x 15cm, a framed Minton tile, in the manner of Walter Crane, with an Art Deco tiled tray, hand painted by Packard & Ord across three Pilkington tiles, set in an oak frame with two lug handles, an oak framed hand painted tile by Ord & Robb, four further hand painted tiles, and a transfer printed teapot stand (10) For condition information please view this lot on our website HERE

Letters.- Baring-Gould (Sabine, Church of England clergyman, author, and folksong collector, 1834-1924) Autograph Postcard to J.E. King & a cut signature of Baring-Gould, 1 side, 90 x 115mm., Lew Trenchard, Devon, 28th March 1912, "Welcome to use the two hymns 'On the Resur[rection] Morn[ing]', & 'Onward Xtian Soldiers' if you will send me 2/- towards the restoration of the parish church", tipped-in on paper; and c. 125 others letters, including: letters by F.T. Palgrave, Sir Henry Newbolt, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm, Joseph Wolff, J. Hanson Walker, Charles Dilke, Alfred Cooper Fryer, CM Yonge, Sir Francis Younghusband, cut signatures of George III, Prince Adolphus Frederick Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Wellington, Lily Langtry, Rudyard Kipling, free frank signed Wellington etc., v.s., v.d. (c. 125 pieces).

Children's Books 9 Books, comprising Crane, Walter Queen Summer, or The Journey of the Lily & the Rose. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., [1891]. First edition, original printed paper-covered boards; Park, Carton Moore An Alphabet of Animals. London: Blackie and Son Ltd., 1899. 4to, original boards, neatly rebacked; Lauda, Richard Radosti Mal?ch. Prague: Nakladem Ceske Graficke, [1903?] Original red cloth gilt, some soiling to covers; Upton, Florence K. The Golliwogg at the Sea-Side. London: Longmans, Green & Co., [1898]. Oblong 4to, original boards, some rubbing and soiling; [Idem] The Golliwogg's "Auto-go-Cart". London: Longmans, Green & Co., [1901]. Oblong 4to, original boards, some rubbing and soiling, neat repair to front free-endpaper, and a few other repairs throughout affecting images in places; Aldin, Cecil The White Puppy Book. London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]. Original boards; [Idem] The White Kitten Book. London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]. Original boards; Stevenson, Robert Louis The Stevenson Song-Book. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Original printed boards, a little soiling; Detmold, E.J. - Florence E. Dugdale The Book of Baby Pets. Oxford: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, [1938]. Original blue cloth, a little foxing (9)

*WALTER CRANE (1845-1915) autograph letter signed to an unknown recipient, 2 pages dated June 3 1886 "...can you trace or draw at all? I should be glad to get as many details bearing on the life of the Greeks in the Homeric and Aeschylean ages as possible whether on architecture, dress and ornament...I have written to Miss Rosetti and in the meantime accept my sympathy..."

THE BABY'S BOUQUET A FRESH BUNCH OF OLD RHYMES & TUNES BY WALTER CRANE

NO RESERVE Crane (Walter).- Collection of books from his family library.- Crane (Walter) The Baby's Bouquet, first edition, presentation copy from Crane to his two children, the inscription reading 'Beatrice & Lionel, with Father's Love, Nov 7 1875', colour full-page illustrations and decorations by Walter Crane, lacking front free endpaper, occasional staining, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, short split to lower joint, corners worn, rubbed, George Routledge and Sons, 1875 § Crane (Walter) The Baby's Opera, first edition, inscribed by Crane, 'Copy of first edition, 10, 000, 1877, Walter Crane', colour full-page illustrations and decorations by Walter Crane, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, corners worn, rubbed, 1877; and c.40 others, mostly works by Crane or with contributions by him but also including others like Randolph Caldecott (a presentation copy from him to Mrs. Walter Crane), all from the Crane family library, the majority with inscriptions by Crane himself or family members,v.s. (c.42)

A PAINTED WOOD THREE FOLD SCREEN, C1900  each side inset with illustrations from the  book 'Flora's Feast a Masque of Flowers' by Walter Crane, 1889 and c, 196cm h, 183cm l Paint which is of later date discoloured and chipped in places; central leaf with minor shrinkage cracks

Iris Murdoch, various titles, reprints; The Unsophisticated Arts, Barbara Jones; Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde 1092, A Flower Wedding, Walter Crane and Anthony Powell novels

One volume ' The Pied Piper of Hamelin ', illustrated by Kate Greenaway, one volume ' The Old Nursery Rhymes ' illustrated by Lawson Wood and one volume ' The Decorative Illustration of Books ' by Walter Crane, London, G. Bell and Sons Ltd, 1911

Autographs Walter Crane 1845-1915 British Author and Illustrator. Six hand written letters signed Walter Crane 1901-10 period. Plus a Cecil Aldin letter signed.

Circle of Walter Crane (1845 - 1915), Two Boys by the River, possibly India or Ceylon, watercolour, glazed and framed, with Fine Arts Society label to reverse, Walter Crane published 'India Impressions', notes of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) during a winter tour 1906-07, 5cm x 52.5cm x 35.5cm, ex frame

After Walter Crane - five book illustrations from the Queen of Summer or The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose, approx 17 w x 20 h cms, all five framed and glazed.

Walter Crane (1845 - 1914), rare section of 19th century wallpaper, 27" x 22", unframed Several fold marks and small torn section on left-hand edge margin

Boaden (James) . The Life of Mrs. Jordan;..., 2 volumes, 1831, printed by Edward Bull, black & white engraved frontispiece to volume 1, folding facsimile letter to front of volume 2, some minor spotting & toning, uniform contemporary boards, some loss to spine labels, lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with: Crane (Walter) , Ideals In Art:..., 1905, numerous black & white illustrations, bookplate to front pastedown, some minor spotting, original gilt decorated blue cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, and Watkins-Pitchford (Denys 'B B') , The Countryman's Bedside Book, 4th impression, 1947, The Idle Countryman, reprinted, 1948, Confessions of a Carp Fisher, 1st edition, 1950, numerous black & white illustrations by the author, some light spotting & toning, all original cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other late 19th century & modern illustrated literature, art & miscellaneous reference, including The Life of William Morris, 2 volumes, by J. W. Mackail, 1899, Animals in Black and White, Volume One The Larger Beasts, by Eric Fitch Daglish, reprinted, 1929, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (Qty: 6 shelves)

CRANE (Walter) A Masque of Days, Cassell & Company, 1901, full velum painted in classical style with cherubs, masks, hippocampus, floral swags, leaf scrolls and landscape vignettes and The Baby's Opera (2).

'A Masque of Days', Walter Crane, published by Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1901, illustrated boards, 4to.

One volume ' Fables ' by John Gay 1814, two volumes ' The Babies Bouquet ' and ' The Babies Opera ', illustrated by Walter Crane and other miscellaneous childrens books etc