NO RESERVE Strang (William) The Street Sellers, etching with drypoint on laid paper, signed in pencil, inscribed 'first state' and dated '24th May 1900', platemark 280 x 302 mm. (11 x 12 in), sheet 340 x 360 mm. (13 1/2 x 14 1/4 in), some toning to sheet, handling creases, unframed, 1900; together with a miscellaneous group of prints and posters, including William Nicholson's 'Krishna Mulvaney', 12 socialist prints of designs by Walter Crane, and others, all unframed, late 19th and early 20th century (25)
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Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly, volumes I-XIII [all published], April 1894-April 1897, numerous black and white plates with tissue guards by Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Crane, Laurence Housman et al, variable spotting, volumes I & V with ink signature to front pastedown, original yellow pictorial cloth, somewhat rubbed and soiled, with some marks, spines variously browned, a few ends frayed, volume XII with short puncture at head of spine, small 4to (Qty: 13)
Crane, Walter, A Flower Wedding. Cassell & Company, 1905. Org. cloth-backed decorative boards, floral endpapers; decorative coloured title, 40 coloured plates with two boxes of Terry Pratchett booksBoard edges rubbed and scuffed, ffep detached from title but still attached to book, edges worn, loss to upper corner of 10 from opening pages, likewise slight loss to upper corners of 13+14 and marginal tear to 15 affecting image slightly otherwise clean and bright internally.
[Chromos] Routledge's Coloured Picture Book (c.1870) containing The Fancy Dress Ball, Annie And Jack In London, The Enraged Miller & Old King Cole with thirty-two pages of coloured illustrations (including some by Walter Crane) in cloth with colour pictorial onlay within a gilt & black surround, L'Education Du Coeur by Mme Manceau illustrated with colour plates in gilt cloth (2)
* Autographs. A large assorted collection of 1000+ mostly clipped autographs, 19 & 20th century, including 350+ loosely contained in 14 small albums, signatures include Arthur Symons, W.E. Gladstone, Herbert Spencer, W.E. Johns, Quentin Hogg, George Solti, Robert Helpmann, John Gielgud, Havelock Ellis, Thomas Hawkins, Admiral Duckworth, Charles Lyell, Robert Murchison, William Black, John Leech, Lord Palmerston, Caroline Norton, Geroge Gilbert Scott, John Everett Millais (pencil), Mary Howitt, George Cruikshank, George Grossmith, Willa Cather, Robert Peel, Lord Liverpool, Lord Russell, John Tyndall, James Nasmyth, The Duke of Wellington, James Montgomery, Edward Pusey, James Ballantine, Walter Crane, Jan Kubelik, H. Rider Haggard, Charles Bell, Adolphus Frederick, Margaret of Teck, Princess Alice, Princess Adelaide, William Frederick, William Wyon, W.P. Frith, Harry Furniss, Henry Moore, etc., mostly cut from letters but including some free fronts and covers (Qty: a carton)
Clarke (Harry, illustrator). Faust by Goethe, from the German by John Anster, London: George G. Harrap, 1925, 21 plates, 8 in colour, letterpress vignettes, scattered spotting, contemporary ink inscription at head of limitation leaf, pictorial endpapers, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, original quarter vellum, spine slightly dust-soiled, paper-covered boards somewhat spotted and toned, corners showing, 4to, together with: Konody ( P. G .). The Art of Walter Crane, 1st edition, London: George Bell, 1902, 16 chromolithographed plates after book illustrations, 7 (of 8) photogravure plates (lacking frontispiece), 73 further plates (a few in colour), tipped-in facsimile bifolium on handmade paper reproducing two leaves from Kelmscott Press's The Story of the Glittering Plain, and numerous illustrations and decorations to text, half-title present, printed throughout in red and black, patterned endpapers (spotted), top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, original gilt decorated two-tone cloth, damp-stained, two small holes in lower joint, folio (Qty: 2)NOTESClarke: limited edition, English issue, number 31 of 1,000 signed by the artist (a further 1000 copies printed for the American market). Konody: limited edition, number 53 of 100 copies on Arnold's Handmade Paper.
NO RESERVE [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, some spotting, mostly to tissue guards, original pictorial yellow cloth, a little rubbed, some spines a little browned, one faded, small 4to, 1894-97.
A Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Lustre Pottery Vase, of baluster form, designed by Richard Joyce and Walter Crane, signed in monogram, with a band of maidens dancing between trees, each holding a chained lantern against a dark blue ground, the shoulders and neck with alternating coloured bands, impressed and printed marks, 26.5cm high.
Crane (Walter).- Spenser (Edmund) The Faerie Queene, 6 vol., limited to 1000 copies, edited by Thomas J. Wise, plates and illustrations by Walter Crane, faint spotting to endpapers, original pink paper wrappers bound in, original decorative cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1897-96.
Books - "The Book of Birds and Beasties" by Eleanor E. Helme, "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell, "Lorna Doone" by R. D. Blackmore, illustrated "Gullivers Travels", "Hunting and Adventures in the Arctic" by Fridtjof Nansen, "A Manual on Simple Perspective" by L. A. Doust and "Line and Form" and "The Basis of Design" by Walter Crane
Walter Crane (British, 1845-1915) ‘Light and Liberty’. Certificate issued to Bro. J P Gibson by the Electrical Trades Union in February 1914. Photo lithograph.Crane designed the emblem for the organisation circa 1899.A rare example, another in the collection of the Working Class Movement Library, Manchester. 42 x 32.5cm. Framed and glazed.
WALTER CRANE (1845-1915) AND WILLIAM S. MYCOCK (1872-1950) FOR PILKINGTON’S TILE & POTTERY CO. decorated with a frieze of lions above a panel of rosettes and hearts, painted artist’s and designer’s cyphers to the base, impressed factory monogram and marks ENGLAND. 2469/ X (Dimensions: 21cm diameter)(21cm diameter)
Walter Crane for Maw and Co., group of three tiles, ' Mistress Mary ', ' Tom Tucker ' and ' Little Bo Peep ' in a single oak frame, the individual tiles 6ins square, 8.5ins x 20.5ins overallCrazing to glaze of all tile edges that are visible. They are not chipped but have lost some of the brown line or border. Other edges are all behind frame which is sealed in.
POGANY WILLY. Tannhauser. Tipped in col. & other illus. & decs. throughout. Quarto. Orig. grey pict. cloth gilt, some wear. 1911; also others illus. by Crane, Dulac & E. J. Sullivan. (5).Condition report:As images.Taunhauser - Some wear, rubbing and staining to boards. text generally good. Dust staining and foxing to rough fore edge. 16 tipped in colour plates. Generally good, one with creased corner.Other vols:Sintram His Companions - Lamotte Fougue.Lavengro - George Barrow.Shirley - Charlotte Bronte.Baby's Bouquet - Walter Crane.
Walter Crane for Minton, a set of six nursery rhyme tiles, circa 1877, hand painted with various scenes, I Had a Little Nut Tree, Little Bo Peep, Two Little Lovers, How Does My Ladys Garden Grown, Where Are You Going To My Pretty Maid and How Do You Do My Dear, all within geometric foliate borders, some monogrammed WC, raised marks, 20.5cm square (6)
Wilde (Oscar). The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood, 2nd edition, David Nutt, 1889, 3 plates including frontispiece, spotting, ink-stamps to endpapers, corner of front free endpaper excised, original boards, soiled and worn, large portion of backstrip loose and laid in, 4to, together with: Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels, 12 colour plates, frontispiece loose, original green pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo, Twain (Mark), Is Shakespeare Dead? From my Autobiography, 1st edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909, 2 halftone frontispieces, title-page blind-stamped 'presentation copy', original cloth, 8vo, and approximately 400 others, mainly crime fiction and related including Edgar Wallace, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells and similar, mainly reprints, original cloth, 8vo (Qty: 11)
Collection of 20 mid-Victorian Valentines to include two hand-coloured cards with romantic verse by J. T. Wood, c.1850; an earlier paper lace card with central hand-coloured lithographic depiction of betrothed couple ('Love's a sweet and heavenly treasure, Love's a never fading tree, Love's the source of endless pleasure, Love, I'll live and die with thee'), c.1840; an envelope/sachet-type design with gold embossed border and central hand-coloured lithographic depiction of young girl in yellow dress, c.1860; a Walter Crane design published by Marcus Ward in the form of a silk & paper lace sachet-type folding card; a single sheet hand-coloured lithographic Valentine (from scrapbook) depicting lovers by a river with accompanying romantic verse; a pink paper lace folding card by Wood, c.1850, with central printed verse, 'To a Bride'; Kate Greenaway type cards, and others (20)
Collection of 55 Victorian & Edwardian greetings cards, predominantly Christmas, to include book format card by Ernest Nister; paper lace card by Meek with tiny etched 'Time' poem ('written without hands'), dated 1848; four Christmas cards depicting the seasons by Louis Prang (USA), dated 1889; several gilt illustrated cards after Walter Crane or similar artist, and others (55)
1890's.- [Beardsley (Aubrey) and others.] The Yellow Book: an Illustrated Quarterly, plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley, Laurence Housman, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm and others, occasional spotting, cracked hinges, original pictorial yellow cloth, rubbed and browned, chipping to spine extremities, small loss to spine head (vols. 1 & 8), 13 vol., 1894-97; The Yellow Book: a selection, frontispiece, plates, original pictorial grey boards, water-stained, bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, small loss to corners and spine extremities, 1949 § Secker (Martin) The Eighteen-Nineties, first edition, inscribed by Secker, frontispiece, original cloth, browned spine, dust-jacket, lightly browned, 3 small tears to edges, 1948; and others, similar including 3 boxes of ephemera relating to G. Krishnamurti and the Eighteen Nineties Society , v.s. (lge. qty)
MANUSCRIPT LETTERS : An extensive collection of letters,signed pieces, fragments, and free frank signatures of mainly 19th century notables including Anthony Trollope, Richard Owen, Robert Walpole, Alfred Tennyson, John Ruskin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Lord Randolph Churchill, Humboldt, Walter Crane, Edward Elgar, W. G. Grace, Lady Byron, H. M. Stanley, Sir John Franklin, etc, etc, etc, well presented in 3 modern albums. * Occasional misattribution and occasional auto pens for alleged signatures (e.g. Sir Winston Churchill)
Six children's & Illustrated titles including Edmund Spenser: 'The Shepheard's Calender', illustrated Walter Crane, London & NY, Harper & Brothers, 1898, 1st edition, 12 full page plates and decorative page borders throughout as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, plus Bret Harte, and Kate Greenaway (illustrated): The Queen of the Pirate Isle', London, Chatto & Windus, [1886], 1st edition, coloured frontis + 27 coloured illustrations as called for, 58pp, original pictorial cloth (rubbed), all edges gilt, green End Papers, plus Edward Ardizzone (illustrated): 'The Poems of Francois Villon', 1946, 1st edition, 12 coloured plates as called for, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, plus Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel (illustrated), 3 titles: 'La Civilite Puerile et Honnete - Vieilles Chansons pour les Petits Enfants - Chansons des France pour les Petits Francais', each Paris, Plon, circa 1900, each illustrated in colour throughout, each oblong 4to, original pictorial cloth (worn), 3rd title later rebacked, new E.P.'s (6)
BERNARD AND ELINOR DARWIN: TOOTLEOO TWO, London, The Nonsuch Press [1927], 1st edition, oblong, 4to, original pictorial paper covered boards + ELEANOR FARJEON: THE PERFECT ZOO, London, Bombay and Sydney, George G Harrap, 1929, 1st edition, oblong, 4to, original cloth backed pictorial boards + ROBERT BROWNING: THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN, ill Kate Greenaway, London, Glasgow and New York, George Routledge [1888], 1st edition, 1st issue, 4to, original cloth backed pictorial boards worn, inner joints weak, Schuster 157 1a + WALTER CRANE: PAN-PIPES..., London, George Routledge, 1883, 1st edition, oblong, 4to, original cloth backed pictorial boards + FREDA DERRICK: THE ARK BOOK, London and Glasgow, Blackie [1920], 1st edition, oblong, 4to, original cloth backed pictorial boards (5)
WALTER CRANE (ILL): FLOWERS FROM SHAKESPEARE'S GARDEN, A POSY FROM THE PLAYS, London, Cassell, 1906, 1st edition, 4to, original cloth backed pictorial boards + "LOUV'A": LES BETES QUE J'AIME, illustrated Helene Guerlik, Paris, Flammarion 1934, original pictorial wraps + "LIDA": 3 titles: PANACHE L'ECUREUIL, illustrated Feodor Rojankovsky, Paris, Flammarion, 1934, original pictorial wraps, top wrap detached; PLOUF CANARD SAUVAGE, illustrated Feodor Rojankovsky, Paris, Flammarion, 1935, original pictorial wraps; MISCHIEF THE SQUIRREL, trans Rose Fileman, illustrated Feodor Rojankovsky, London, George Allen & Unwin [1938], original pictorial wraps + 2 others (7)
PHOEBE RENNELL (1883-1972); blue religious calligraphy verse on vellum with illuminated detail, 'Adorna Thalamum Tuum [...]', unsigned, with part label identifying artist and Rowley of Kensington stamp verso, 70 x 42cm, framed and glazed (D).Provenance: by descent from the artist.Additional InformationSome staining and discolouration and some waviness to the paper, particularly at the corners and edges, some creasing to the paper, particularly lower left, upper right corners and left side. Some small holes at top and bottom edges where has been previously mounted, some faint pencil outlines, some further marks, frame worn.Phoebe Rennell was born in Clapham, London and attended the local Clapham School of Art, later working as a calligrapher, illuminator and illustrator in the Arts & Crafts tradition of William Morris and Walter Crane and a potential student of Edward Johnston or Graily Hewitt, Miss Rennel also occupied Fydell House in Boston during WWII and escaped unharmed when the house suffered bomb damage.This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
PHOEBE RENNELL (1883-1972); two religious calligraphy verses in black and gold entitled 'Gloria in Excelsis Deo' and 'Whoso Dwelleth Under the Defence of the Most High: Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty', unsigned, the first and slightly larger, 48 x 28.5cm, both framed and glazed (2) (D).Provenance: by descent form the artist.Additional InformationSome waviness and turning up at corners and edges particularly, some spotting and foxing, some visible pencil outlines, the first particularly displaying foxing and marks. Both with some dirt, both frames heavily worn and tired.Phoebe Rennell was born in Clapham, London and attended the local Clapham School of Art, later working as a calligrapher, illuminator and illustrator in the Arts & Crafts tradition of William Morris and Walter Crane and a potential student of Edward Johnston or Graily Hewitt, Miss Rennel also occupied Fydell House in Boston during WWII and escaped unharmed when the house suffered bomb damage.This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
PHOEBE RENNELL (1883-1972); gold and coloured religious calligraphy, 'The Pageant of Holy Thursday', with verse below bordered by angels in watercolour beneath a multicoloured rainbow with gold calligraphy pen detail, signed and dated 1928, 52 x 47cm, framed and glazed (D). Provenance: by descent from the artist.Additional InformationWaviness to the material, faint visible pencil lines used for the script and possible preparatory sketches, some spotting and foxing, frame worn. Phoebe Rennell was born in Clapham, London and attended the local Clapham School of Art, later working as a calligrapher, illuminator and illustrator in the Arts & Crafts tradition of William Morris and Walter Crane and a potential student of Edward Johnston or Graily Hewitt, Miss Rennel also occupied Fydell House in Boston during WWII and escaped unharmed when the house suffered bomb damage. This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
Essex House Press. Wordsworth, William. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, limited edition numbered 147 of 150, 1902. Printed on vellum, hand-coloured frontispiece by Walter Crane, printed in black, manuscript initials in red, blue and gold. Publisher's vellum binding with blind-embossed rose to upper board, gilt title to spine. Good, clean, brightProvenance: Consigned to sale by the Turbutt family. The vendor's uncle was Gladwyn M. R. Turbutt - the man who discovered the original Bodleian copy of the first folio of Shakespeare (The Turbutt Shakespeare)
Album. 4to., fine orig. vellum gilt, with red morocco onlays gilt, initials MJW on upper cover, with gilt stamp of Romulus and Remus on lower, label of Ennio Andersen Roma. Containing mounted cut signatures of George IV when Prince Regent, William IV, & Queen Victoria; envelope fronts in the hands of Edward VII, Queen Alexandra and others; and autograph letters of Hubert Parry, Lord Roberts and others; loose sheet with autograph poem signed by Walter Crane, dated Feb. 3 1896, “Beneath great London's dome to his last rest”, evidently referring to the death of an artist/see illustration
W[right] (T[homas]) A Succinct Philosophicall Declaration of the Nature of Clymactericall Yeeres, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth, first edition, with initial but lacking terminal blank, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut historiated initial and headpieces, closely shaved at head, occasionally touching page numbers, occasional light soiling or damp-staining to margins, ink inscriptions in an early hand to margins, modern boards with morocco label to upper cover, [STC 26043.3], small 4to, for Thomas Thorpe, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crane, by Walter Burre, 1604.⁂ A rare treatise, written on the dead of Elizabeth I. ESTC records only 2 copies in the UK. Provenance: Kitt Nesfeild (ink inscription).
A selection of illustrated vols including Caldecott, Du Maurier, Hugh Thomson, McCutcheon, Walter Crane, Gwynedd M. Hudson, etc., to/w Milne, A A When We Were Very Young, 7th 1926, Seller & Yeatman, 1066 and All That, 6th 1930, And Now All This, 3rd impression 1932, Busch, Wilhelm, Max and Moritz, Eton an Anthology in Prose & Verse (with slip-case) and Contes de la Fontaine, in the original French with some risqué engraved plates, Paris: Garnier Freres (c.1890?) (26)
Walter Crane, Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1894, mounted in two oak frames, one with signed limitation leaf to the reverse, this being copy no. 123 of 650 sets; Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare's Tempest, 1893, in one frame, set no.161 / 650, similarly signed

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