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Click here to subscribeCollection of six pieces of Victorian Sowerby opaque cream pressed glass comprising a vase of square form, decorated with alternative panels of two witches and a woman at a spinning wheel 'Cross Patch', both after designs by Walter Crane from An Alphabet of Old Friends, 8cm high, two two-handled bowls and a jug, decorated with a continuous frieze of peacocks and flowers and two baskets (6)
Victorian Sowerby blue pressed glass vase of rectangular form, the sides depicting scenes from King Cole after designs by Walter Crane, 8cm high, another Sowerby blue pressed glass vase of tapering square form, the alternating panels depicting a shepherd and a pageboy, 10cm high, a Sowerby two-handled vase of square form decorated with bees and two basket weave design items (5)
Collection of Victorian opaque white pressed glass including a Sowerby vase of flared circular form decorated with a continuous scene of a man doffing his hat to a curtseying maiden, probably after a design by Walter Crane, 10.5cm high, a Sowerby vase of woven design, another Sowerby vase with flowerhead decoration, etc. (7)
Victorian Sowerby opaque blue pressed glass flower trough decorated with the 'Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy and Beth' pattern after a design by Walter Crane, 16cm long and a pair of Sowerby opaque blue pressed glass flower troughs decorated with 'Oranges and Lemons', also after designs by Walter Crane, 11cm long (3)
Three items of Victorian Sowerby opaque blue pressed glass comprising a cylindrical vase decorated with a continuous scene of 'Multiplication' after a design by Walter Crane, 11cm high, another vase depicting 'Lavender's Blue' also after a Walter Crane design, 7cm high and a four-division toast rack on oval base (3)
CHILDREN AND ILLUSTRATED: 1. MILES, W. J: Modern Practical Farriery. W. Mackenzie, nd, c1880; with colour lithographs and other plates; p:538, 90. Original gilt pictorial cloth; vg+/FINE copy; 2. Hardy, E S(ill): Stories from Hans Andersen. Ernest Nister, nd, c1898 (inscription date); with 6 colour lithograph plates + ill. pp:288; original red pictorial cloth, aeg; damp stained; first gathering loose; 3. Greenaway, Kate (4 works): Almanack for 1883. Routledge; G+; Language of Flowers. Nd, inscribed 1884; foxing; Under the Window; Routledge, nd, c1880; covers little worn; Another copy: A/F; 4. Crane, Walter: Flora's Feast. Cassell, 1889, original pictorial covers; edges chipped ; 5. Sloper’s Comic Kalendar for: 1877, 78, 79, 81 and 82. Original wrappers; 79 worn & torn; o/w G; Plus 2 others. (14)
CRANE, WALTER: Large collection, c58 Books, etc., All Illustrated by WALTER CRANE (1845-1915), including:Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona; With 8 Dallastype plates by Duncan C. Dallas. J.M. Dent, 1894, Limited edition, #191 OF 650 COPIES SIGNED BY CRANE AND DALLAS. Folio, contents loose as issued in original gilt-stamped cloth solander box, mild blistering and rubbing; mounts foxed, sometimes affects plates; Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare's Tempest. With 8 Dallastype plates by Duncan C. Dallas. J.M. Dent, 1893, Limited edition, #375 OF 650 COPIES SIGNED BY CRANE AND DALLAS. Folio, contents loose as issued in original gilt-stamped cloth solander box, mild blistering and rubbing; mounts foxed, sometimes affects plates; Triplets- comprising: Baby's Opera, Baby's Bouquet and Baby's Own Aesop. Routledge, 1899, Limited edition, #294 OF 500 COPIES. Vellum backed boards (grubby), some foxing;SPENSER'S FAERIE QUEENE: edited by Thomas J. Wise, in 6 volumes. George Allen, 1895-97, Limited edition of 1000 copies on handmade paper printed by Charles Whittingham of the Chiswick Press. 88 full- page woodcut illustrations (one double-page), 132 head and tailpieces, & numerous woodcut initials. Cont. full suede; dry, chipped and covers detached; light browning to paper edges and a hint of foxing; on the whole, internally clean; Walter Crane's New Toy Book Routledge, no date (inscription dated 1872), 1st. edn. Original pictorial covers; worn & chipped;Spencer’s The Shepheard's Calendar. 1898, 1st. edn. Original pictorial cloth; rubbed; Oscar WILDE: The Happy Prince. 1910, 7th. impr. Spine little darkened; A Book of Christmas Verse. 1895, 1st. edn. Spine little darkened;Queen Summer.. 1891, 1st. edn. lower board rubbed & cut;The New Forest. 1863, 1st. edn. gilt pictorial cloth; cut to side of spine; double-page map with tear to fold; The Song of Sixpence picture Book. Routledge, nd, 1st? Covers little worn;Ideals in Art. 1905, 1st. Spine & part of covers faded; Don Quixote,(2 copies). 1900, 1st? inner hinges cracked; India Impressions. 1907, 1st. edn. Covers worn; The Hind in the Wood. Nd, (1910), 1st. wrappers worn & torn; ETC. (qty.)
Collection of Victorian opalescent pressed glass including a Sowerby vase of cylindrical form supported by three swans and with bullrush decoration, 9.5cm high, another Sowerby vase of flared square form with panels of classical figures after designs by Walter Crane, a vase in the form of a fish and three other items (6)
Sowerby opaque white pressed glass flower trough decorated with a relief scene of girls and a nest, the 'Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy and Beth scene' after a design by Walter Crane, with painted highlights, 16cm long, a Sowerby pressed glass sugar bowl and cream jug set decorated with painted blossom in relief and one other item (4)
Sowerby pressed glass vase with moulded panels of Jack and Jill after designs by Walter Crane and the details heightened in gold, bearing a paper label for 'The Angela Bowey Glass Museum Collection', 9cm high and another Sowerby pressed glass vase depicting Little Bo Peep, again after a Walter Crane design, the details highlighted in purple lustre, 9cm high (2)
Greenaway, Kate (ills), "Mother Goose", Frederick Warne & Co, pictorial bds, ills throughout, corners bumped and rubbed, Crane, Walter "The Baby's Opera" (poor condition), Tolkien, revised editions of the Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and the Return of the King with dj, Tolkien "The Silmarillion" pub 1977 with dj, various volumes of Asterix both in English and French, pictorial hardback books and various other volumes on history and other subjects (1 box)
Folio Society. Spenser's Faerie Queene, A Poem in Six Books, with the Fragment Mutabilitie, Edited by Thomas J. Wise, Pictured by Walter Crane, Published by George Allen, 1897, facsimile edition, 6 volumes in three, Folio Society, 2011, black & white illustrations, top edges gilt, original white goat, gilt blocked decoration from a design based on Walter Crane's original, large 4to, together with commentary leaflet by Alan Stewart Limited edition 228/1000. Without slipcase. (3)
Fraser (Claud Lovat). Nursery Rhymes with pictures by C. Lovat Fraser, 1st edition, T.C. & E.C. Jack, circa 1920, colour lithograph and other illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and some marks and discolouration, 4to, together with De La Mare (Walter), Down-Adown Derry, a book of fairy poems, with illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop, 1st edition, 1922, monochrome illustrations, top edge gilt, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, some minor marks (generally in bright condition), 4to, plus Caldicott (Randolph), Some of Aesop's Fables with modern instances shewn in designs by Randolph Caldicott, 1st edition, Macmillan, 1883, monochrome illustrations, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, 4to, and Crane (Walter), Mother Hubbard Her Picture Book, John Lane, circa 1880s, coloured illustrations, original pictorial blue cloth, a little rubbed, 4to, plus other children's illustrated books, various, mostly late 19th and early 20th century, including Dumpy Books for Children series, Randolph Caldicott Picture Books series, etc. (approximately 40)
Crane (Walter, illustrator). Wonder Book for Girls & Boys, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1892, 60 colour illustrations, some minor spotting, original decorated cloth, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with Stevenson (Robert Louis), Island Nights' Entertainments, 1893, 28 black and white illustrations, some very minor spotting, original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine and hinges lightly rubbed, 8vo, and Jewsbury (Maria Jane), Letters to the Young, 2nd edition, 1829, period inscription to front endpaper, bookplate to front pastedown, some minor toning, contemporary gilt decorated calf, spine rubbed with loss to head, 8vo, plus other 19th and early 20th century children's and illustrated literature, including Walter de la Mare, Charles Dickens, Oliver Goldsmith, Lionel Edwards, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some leather bindings, G/VG, 8vo/4to (3 shelves)
Peters (Harry T.). Currier & Ives, Printmakers to the American People, volumes 1 & 2, reprint edition, 1976, numerous black and white illustrations, uniform orignial cream cloth, boards and spines slightly marked, large 8vo, together with Hulten (Pontus & Celant, Jermano), Arte Italiana Presenze 1900-1945, Italy, 1989, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original black cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly marked and rubbed to head, large 8vo, and Crane (Walter), The Bases of Design, 1998, numerous black and white illustrations, bookplate to front pastedown, some minor spotting, original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine slightly faded and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus other late 19th century and modern art, antique and photography reference, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
Crane (Walter, 1845-1915) "Lost & Broken", probably an unrealised design intended for the Sixpenny Toy Book Series, pen and black and brown ink, watercolour, traces of graphite, heightened with white, signed with monogram upper right, inscribed in pencil upper left, on wove paper, 205 x 160 mm. (8 1/8 x 6 1/4 in), some loss to margins, minor surface dirt and light browning, unframed, [circa 1865-1875].
Crane (Walter).- Spenser (Edmund) The Faerie Queene, edited by Thomas J. Wise, 6 vol., one of 1,000 copies, illustrations and decorations by Walter Crane, browning to endpapers, original pictorial cloth, gilt, surface soiling and some staining, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 4to, 1897.
Illustrated fairy tale and children's books; Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen illustrated by Arthur Rackham, George Harrap 1936 leather bound, The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, George Harrap 1934, The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, George Harrap 1931, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell illustrated by Cecil Aldin, The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley illustrated by Jessie Willcox, Smith Hodder and Stoughton, c1919, The Old Nursery Rhymes illustrated by Lawson Wood, Robin Hood illustrated by Walter Crane and The Admirable Crichton by J.M.Barrie illustrated by Hugh Thomson, (9).
McCarthy J. H. : A collection of the writer's hand-written diaries, in various formats, for each year from 1886 - 1935. ( Individual Diaries for the years 1878, 1880, 1882, 1890, 1894, 1895, & 1933 are not present ). Entries include references to accounts of excursions abroad, visits to Galleries, dictation of his work, practise with an air pistol, books bought and read, Theatre outings, visits to a wide range of UK locations, visits to Publishers including Chatto & Kegan Paul, House of Commons, Meetings of the Dramatists' Club, meetings with various celebrities including - Walter Crane, George Meredith, Jerome and Pinero, monetary matters and a wide range of other activities. Some of the entries are very brief, others more extensive. Overall, a wide ranging biographical, literary and historical archive of potential interest to a range of research specialists in a number of fields. Together with a small collection of other miscellaneous note books.
Chester - Baillie Family. An autobiographical account of the childhood in Chester of Charles Henry Kingsley-Baillie up until his father's death in 1897, typewritten, 1946-47, a notebook of 55 numbered pages, typed to rectos only, with 11 additional watercolour pages of local characters and scenes, some manuscript corrections, foreword signed by the author, the pages contained in a contemporary small ring binder (hinges somewhat rusted), contemporary cloth, rubbed and slightly damp marked, 8vo, preserved in a contemporary card box with watercolour monogram IC [the author's sister Ivy Clifford] to upper cover, narrow 8vo An interesting series of reminiscences by the son of Edmund John Baillie, a successful nurseryman centring on the three Chester houses the family lived in, all named 'Woodbine'. The author remembers local characters, scenes and events as his family grew ever larger. His 'father interested himself in several societies - the Chester Society of Natural Science, the Kingsley Memorial Society, the Ruskin Society, the Archaeological Society of Chester, and several others. He was most active in promoting the erection of the Grosvenor Museum in Chester, which was made possible by the generosity of the Duke of Westminster, who donated the building site, and started the fund with a cheque for £10,000'. He also remembers an original watercolour by Ruskin given to his father by the artist which hung above his mother's desk, as well as other pictures and letters of Ruskin and 'an immense brown and white decorative panel by Walter Crane'. Among the other works owned was an immense picture by Dame Clara Knight and one of a Pomeranian dog 'by an artist friend of father's - Arthur Boddington - a very strange man - and a confirmed agnostic. The picture was given to my mother by Boddington as a peace offering, after she and Arthur became involved in a heated argument over religion, (in which Boddington lost out), and mother ordered him to leave the house'. He remembers visits by Sir George Adam Smith, Walter Crane, Hugh Nisbet and Ira D. Sankey. He also describes a violent thrashing given him by his headmaster, and the ensuing showdown between his father and the headmaster and being pulled out of the school. Other family friends remembered include Dr Jaeger and Sir Isaac and Lady Pitman. The account ends with the death of his father who had been suffering from diabetes, 'and I often wonder if he would have lived longer, if he had engaged a physician other than Dr Haynes Thomas, who was a homeopathist'. (1)
Childrens' illustrated. DENNYS (Joyce) Our Hospital ABC, no date, London: John Lane, colour printed with verses, covers worn at edges; CRANE (Walter) A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden, London: Harper & Brothers, 1899, colour printed by Edmund Evans, original cloth a little soiled, small repairs to spine; CALDECOTT (R) A Sketch Book, F. Warne & Co, oblong 8vo, colour printed; BOCCACCIO (G) Ten Tales from the Decameron, privately printed, 1930, 4to, illustrations by E. Lucchesi; Mr Punch's New Book for Children, no date, coloured illustrations by Chas Pears, pictorial cloth; DARWIN (Bernard and Elinor) The Tale of Mr Tootleoo, Nonesuch Press, oblong 8vo, coloured illustrations, original limp covers; GRAHAM (Harry) More Ruthless Rhymes, no date, boards; LEAR (Edward) The Jumblies, F. Warne & Co. no date, illustrations, occasional stains, cloth backed pictorial boards; another by Leslie Brooke (damaged spine)
Literature 19th and 20th century. CRANE (Walter), Renascence, A Book of Verse, 1891, no. 1322/1350 copies, untrimmed; British Cage Birds, Parts 2-10, 12, 13, paper wrappers, each part with a coloured plate; JENNINGS (P), Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads, n. d., circa 1890, illustrated, cloth gilt; etc. (quantity)
Osborne Collection. Facsimile Editions from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, Toronto Public Library, 35 works in 28 titled slipcases, publ. The Bodley Head, c.1980s, including titles by Lewis Carroll, Randolph Caldecott, Thomas Bewick, Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane, &c., numerous colour and black and white illustrations, in cloth gilt or printed wrappers, all in slipcases, various sizes
PARKER (B & N) The Lays of the Grays, London and Edinburgh: W & R Chambers Ltd, c.1900, oblong 4to, 12 coloured illustrations, pictorial boards;CRANE (Walter, illust.) Beauty and the Beast Picture Book, Containing Beauty and the Beast, The Frog Prince, The Hind in the Wood, publ. John Lane, c.1900, 4to, with 18 coloured plates printed by Edmund Evans, original cloth, a good copy; Pan Pipes, Routledge no date [c.1890],colour printed, boards (worn) (3)
[MISCELLANEOUS]. ILLUSTRATED Alighieri, Dante. The New Life, translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, full reversed calf, top edges gilt, colour and line drawn illustrations by Evelyn Paul, quarto (covers damp marked); Bedier, Joseph. The Romance of Tristram and Iseult, translated by Florence Simmonds, Heinemann, London, 1910, decorative blue cloth, frontispiece and a further nineteen paper-protected tipped-in colour plate illustrations by Maurice Lalau (as called for), quarto (covers damp marked); Dulac, Edmund, illustrator, and Shakespeare, William. The Tempest, Hodder & Stoughton, London, no date, decorative green cloth gilt, frontispiece and a further thirty-nine paper-protected tipped-in colour plate illustrations, quarto (spine slightly faded and nicked); and Parry, Judge. Don Quixote of the Mancha, Blackie, London, no date, pictorial cloth, pictorial title, frontispiece and a further ten colour plate illustrations by Walter Crane (as called for), small quarto (lower cover damp marked), (4).
Cramer (John Anthony) Graecia Antiqua et Nova una cum Insulis circumjacentibus, 1827, Oxford, J. Parker, engraved map by Findlay hand-coloured in outline, mounted on linen in 42 sections, folding into very scuffed and rubbed reverse calf boards, split at joint so upper cover detached; the map with only light soiling and staining, no tears or loss. Fully open 1260 x 980mm. [together with:] Anderson (William) The Works of Lord Byron, [c.1870], Edinburgh, A. Fullarton & Co., in two large 8vo volumes, frontispieces, engraved pictorial and printed titles, illustrated with numerous engraved plates, contemporary rubbed red morocco gilt, a.e.g. [&] Wilde (Oscar) The Happy Prince And Other Tales, 1889, London, David Nutt, large 8vo Second Edition, illustrations by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood, original printed boards stained, spine lacking, foxing (3).
Farror (Frederic W.). Eric or Little By Little, 2nd edition, Edinburgh, 1858, some minor spotting, guttering slightly cracked, original embossed brown cloth, spine slightly rubbed and faded, 8vo, together with Crane (Walter, illustrator), The History of Reynard The Fox..., by F.S. Ellis, Chiswick Press, 1897, black and white illustrations, some minor spotting, original white cloth, boards and spine slightly marked, 4to, and Robinson (W. Heath, illustrator), The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Chiswick Press, 1900, numerous black and white illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guard, decorated endpapers, some light spotting, original gilt decorated green cloth, spine slightly faded, 8vo, plus other late 19th and early to mid 20th century fiction, poetry and miscellaneous literature, all original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves)
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, George Allen, 1897, numerous woodcuts, some full-page, some spotting and toning to first and final leaves and endpapers, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, original gilt decorated cream cloth with original pink wrappers bound in, some soiling, 4to Limited edition, one of 1000 copies. (6)
Crane (Walter). Walter Crane's Picture Book, Frederick Warne, 1900, numerous colour illustrations, scattered light spotting, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed boards, slight soiling, oblong folio, together with The Art of Walter Crane, by P.G. Konody, George Bell, 1902, numerous photogravure, colour and monochrome illustrations, a little light spotting, Easton Neston Library shelf number label at front, top edge gilt, original blue cloth gilt, spine slightly darkened, folio (2)
*Sandys (Winifred). A group of 19 original watercolour postcards of Canterbury Tales characters, after illustrations from the Ellesmere MS., circa 1900, well-executed watercolours on plain white postcards, many with pencil title beneath, printed postcard details of Reeves' Whatman Post Card with divided backs to versos, all unused and loosely inserted into a copy of Saunders (John, editor), Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, new and revised edition, 1894, black & white illustrations, the majority with hand-colouring and colour notes [by Winifred Sandys], presentation inscription to half-title, 'Walter Crane Esq., R.W.S., in remembrance of the great esteem for him and his works, of the author, from E.M. Saunders', original cloth, rubbed and soiled, 8vo From the library of Anthony Crane, grandson of Walter Crane and son of Lionel Crane and Winifred Sandys. Winifred was the daughter of Frederick Sandys and an artist herself, and it is Anthony Crane who has identified the watercolours as his mother's work, which are all unsigned. The characters depicted on the postcards are Chaucer (frontispiece, from the Harleian MS.), The Monk, Friar, Summoner, Pardoner, Parson, Serjeant-at-Law, Manciple, Doctor of Physic, Canon's Yeoman, Clerk, Franklin, Miller (with duplicate on tracing paper), Reeve, Merchant, Shipman, Cook and Wife of Bath. (20)
Coppard [A.E.] : The Man From Kilsheelan, pub. Chiswick Press, 1930, woodcut by Robert Gibbings, limited edition number 353 of 500 copies, signed by the author, blue buckram; Houghton [Claude] : Three Fantastic Tales, pub. Chiswick Press, limited edition of 275 copies, this copy " With the Publishers' Compliments", yellow cloth boards; Six Other Works - "The Game of Logic (Lewis Carroll", (complete with envelope containing board and counters); "Sung to Shahryar" (E. Powys Mathers); "Baby's Bouquet" (Walter Crane), Frederick Warne & Co.; "Knickerbocker Papers; Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (Washington Irving), the Riccardi Press, 1914, number 195 of a limited edition of 1000 copies, rough cut pages, beige vellum boards; "The Book of Job" (introduction by G.K. Chesterton) colour pasted down illustrations by C. Mary Tongue, pub. Cecil Palmer & Hayward, London, 1916 and "Farewell to Miss Julie Logan" (J.M Barrie)), as published by The Times, Thursday December 24th 1931. (8)
Walter Crane (British, 1845-1915) Arts & Crafts set of 12 napkins, circa 1895-1900 cream linen and silk damask woven with a design centred by swans within a border of apple trees, swallows and peacocks woven to the border 'Designed by Walter Crane, London' 11 of the napkins all joined as one piece 720cm x 66cm and the single napkin 69cm x 66cm.
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