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Lot 332

WISE, John R - The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery - 1880, Third Edition, with illustrations by Walter Crane, and two maps to include a fold-out map of The New Forest

Lot 540

Small Private Press Books and Booklets1.Marvell (Andrew) Daphnis and Chloe, no. 127 of 250 copies. Kit-Cat Press, nd. 2.Austen (Jane) Frederic and Elfreda: with illustration by Edward Bawden. Copy 247 of 350. Kit-Cat Press, 1987 3.Hardacre (Kenneth) Some odd characters, one of 150 copies, Kit-Cat Press, 1986 4.Harrop (Dorothy) Sir Emery Walker 1851-1933, signed by author, Nine Elms Press5.Gerard (David) Walter Crane and the rhetoric of art, one of 350 copies signed by Gerard, Paperback pamphlet bound in Morris Willow-pattern paper. Nine Elms Press, 1999 6. Nash (John) Mr Cobden-Sanderson's two-handed engine, 350 copies printed, signed by author. Paperback pamphlet bound in Morris Willow-pattern paper. Signed by Peter J Sanderson. Nine Elms Press, 1994 7.Lindsay (Jack) William Morris: dreamer of dreams, one of 500 copies, paperback pamphlet bound in Morris Willow-pattern paper, Nine Elms Press, 1991 8.Gerard (David) Ruskin & William Morris, one of 350 copies, paperback pamphlet bound in Morris Willow-pattern paper. Signed by Peter J Sanderson, Nine Elms Press, 1998 9.Stansky (Peter) William Morris C.R. Ashbee and the Arts and Crafts,one of 300 copies signed by author, paperback pamphlet bound in Morris Willow-pattern paper (slight discolouration to spine. Nine Elms Press, 19841.Rae (Thomas) Adventures of John M'Alpine copy no. 136 of 200 of a total of 226. Bound in quarter leather with Japanese wood veneer over boards. Black Pennell Press, 19852.Wilson (L M) The old bookseller, copy 71 of 75 quarter bound in Elephanthide with decorated paper sides. Black Pennell Press, 19893.Rules and directions to be observed in printing-houses Black Pennell Press, copy 161 of 200, bound in quarter lined with marbled sides. Black Pennell Press, 19881.Austen (Jane) Northanger Abbey, copy no. 1396 of 1,500. Designed by Richard Ellis and illustrated by Charles Hutton. Signed by illustrator. Bound in striped silk cloth, leather spine label, Slip case, Garamond Press, 1971 1. Theroux (Paul) Shortest day of the year, copy 29 of 175, out of 201, bound in cloth. 3 colour illustrations by Sebastian Carter. Signed, Sixth Chamber Press, 1986 1.Crombie (John) The colour schemers no 218 of 35 copies, 16.5 x 17.5cm. Pp. (32), colour illustrations with card covers. Kickshaws, 1982. 1.Knowles (Richard) Death of Charles Stothard, One of 100 copies, soft grey card cover. 1st Edition. Title-page wood engraving of Beer Ferrers church by Chris Bayley. Box Tree Press, 1981 1.History of Pompey the little, or the adventures of a lap-dog. Copy no. 195 of 400. Bound in quarter white buckram with brown paper boards. Dust jacket heavily foxed also page edges but text pages good. Page colour tanned. Golden Cockerel, 1926Plus; Bibliography: April 1921 - Dec 1929 and Autumn list 1931

Lot 45

ANON: SELECT STORIES, A COLLECTION OF SHIPWRECKS, ANECDOTES AND ADVENTURES, London, 1838, new edition, wood engraved frontis, duo decimo, original blind stamped cloth gilt, all edges gilt, plus JOHANN DAVID WYSS: THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE, ARRANGED AND ADAPTED FROM THE ORIGINAL STORY BY I F M [ie ISABELLA FYVIE MAYO], London, Cassel, Petter & Galpin [1874], 8 coloured plates including 2 by Walter Crane, 4pp adverts at end dated 7a.1.74, original cloth gilt, plus J H FORBES "ARTHUR LOCKER": ON A CORAL REEF, THE STORY OF A RUNAWAY TRIP TO SEA, London, [1874], 2nd edition, 8 plates, 4pp adverts at end dated 7a.10.74, original pictorial cloth gilt (3)

Lot 6

C S LEWIS: THE SILVER CHAIR, illustrated Pauline Baines, 1961 reprint, original cloth silvered (worn), dust-wrapper + WALTER CRANE: THE BABY'S OPERA, circa 1919, original cloth backed pictorial boards, + ANNA SEWELL: BLACK BEAUTY, illustrated Cecil Aldin, London, Jarrolds [ND circa 1920], 18 coloured plates as called for, original cloth gilt + CICELY MARY BARKER: 2 titles: FLOWER SONGS OF THE SEASONS WITH MUSIC, SPRING SONGS WITH MUSIC FROM "FLOWER FAIRIES OF THE SPRING", each London, Blackie & Son Ltd, 1st title circa 1928, 2nd title circa 1930, each with 12 mounted coloured plates as called for, each original cloth backed boards, printed pictorial labels to top boards + A A MILNE: THE KING'S BREAKFAST, 1926 2nd edition, original cloth backed boards, dust-wrapper + RAYMOND BRIGGS: FATHER CHRISTMAS, 1973 5th impression, original cloth, dust-wrapper + A A MILNE: MORE 'VERY YOUNG' SONGS, 1928 1st edition, original cloth backed boards, printed label to top board (worn), + one other similar (9)

Lot 7

WALTER CRANE: FLORA'S FEAST, A MASQUE OF FLOWERS, 1889, 1st edition, 8pp publishers adverts at end with date code 10.88, 40 leaves of coloured illustrations as called for, original cloth backed decorative boards + [EDITH C POLLOCK] "ISMAY THORN": HARLEQUIN EGGS, illustrated Lily Chitty, London, W Swan Sonnenschein & Co, circa 1884, 22 leaves of coloured litho illustrations as called for, original cloth backed pictorial boards, worn and soiled, inner joints split + JOHN RUSKIN: THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER OR THE BLACK BROTHERS, A LEGEND OF STYRIA, illustrated Richard Doyle, 1889, 9th edition, engraved frontis, added engraved title + engraved illustrations in text as called for, original cloth gilt worn (3)

Lot 62

A fine Pilkington's Lancastrian charger designed by Walter Crane painted by William S Mycock, dated 1918, the well painted with St George mounted on a rearing horse, holding a lance, piercing the head of a ferocious dragon which encircles the border, the inner rim inscribed Un Chevalier Sans Peur et Sans Reproche, (The Knight without fear and Beyond Reproach), in ruby and copper lustre on a blue ground, impressed marks date mark 1917, painted mark and artists ciphers, dated 1918, 48.5cm. diam. Provenance Given as a wedding present in 1920 to the aunt of the present owner. Private collection. Literature The Studio 1908 for an example painted by Richard Joyce. Greg Smith Walter Crane, Artist Designer and Socialist, Lund Humphries, page 145 plate K12 for a smaller example, painted by Richard Joyce, from the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester. British Art Pottery Woolley and Wallis Auctioneer's 30th November 2005, lot 964, painted by Richard Joyce in a red and cream colour way, dated 1912, sold for £18,000. Catalogue Notes The inscription refers to Pierre Terrail, the Chevalier de Bayard (1473-1524).

Lot 755

Walter Crane R. W. S. (1845-1915). Unfinished watercolour in gilt frame. Portrait of two women in a doorway. Fine Art Society label verso monogrammed W. C. 29cm x 22cm. Condition Report. To be used as a guide only. No condition issues.

Lot 1175

CRANE (Walter, Illustrator): 'A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden..' London, Harper, 1899: 4to, publishers pictorial boards, contents loose: BRIGGS (K M): 'The Half-Cut Wood and Eleven Other Poems...decorated in lino cuts by Winifred Briggs': printed by the illustrator, 1959: 12mo, card covers in green printed wrapper, VG: MACKENZIE (Compton): 'April Fools, a Farce of Manners..' London, Cassell, 1930: 8vo, dustwrapper: together with a quantity of other literature and illustrated books, largely 20th century material, various sizes and bindings over 2 shelves. (2 shelves)

Lot 115

A Royal Delft earthenware tile, decorated a tube lined stork in the manner of Walter Crane, 32cm x 12cm Condition Report: Overall appears in good condition

Lot 624

Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales, from the Old French retold by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, Hodder & Stoughton, [1910], thirty tipped-in colour plates, some creasing, tissue guards, D2 with short closed tear in upper blank margin, hinges split, contemporary manuscript inscription on front free endpaper, shaken and stitching strained, original gilt decorated terracotta cloth, rubbed and marked, foot of spine slightly frayed, 4to, together with Goble (Warwick, illustrator), Stories from the Pentamerone, by Giambattista Basile, selected and edited by E.F. Strange, Macmillan, 1911, thirty-two colour plates, captioned tissue guards, occasional spotting, endpapers toned, original gilt decorated red cloth, soiled, spine faded and frayed at ends, 4to, plus Crane (Walter), A Book of Old Songs, newly arranged & with accompaniments by Theo: Marzials, George Routledge, 1883, musical notation with colour illustrations and decorations throughout, some light toning and marks, hinges split, front free endpaper with ownership signature of Morrell, Garsington, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, edges showing, oblong 4to, plus twenty-one other illustrated children's books, a number of them in French, including Cecil Aldin, Willebeek Le Mair, M.B. de Monvel, and A.A. Milne (24)

Lot 676

WALTER CRANE for Minton, three nursery rhyme inspired painted ceramic tilesI Had a Little Nut Tree, Little Bow Peep and How Does My Lady's Garden Grow. Each approximately 15 cm squared. (3) CONDITION REPORTS: Some edge chippings, some paint wear/loss, wear to frames, general wear.

Lot 125

Mason's Art Nouveau style 'Swans' by Walter Crane and two studio pottery cheese dishes Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Lot 135

Collection of letters from artists, architects etc., most autograph and signed, and many to fellow artists or on art-related subjects, some mounted on trimmed album leaves: Sir John Gilbert to [Elhanan] Bicknell, '1853' (and another complaining about the quality of a reproduction, '1872'), C.L. Eastlake (regarding tickets for an RA event, 1852), Henry Holiday (2, one relating to work on a mosaic), James Grant, Richard Redgrave (2), Francis Grant (2), Val Prinsep, Annie Cobden-Sanderson, Walter Crane (1905, small tape-stain), Marcus Stone, Calcott Horsley (2, one a note handing over the portrait of the Earl of Shaftesbury), Edward J. Poynter (2), Edward Welby Pugin (ALS and LS referring to the Ushaw roof, 1856), Sir Charles Barry (1888), James Sant (2), James D. Linton (to Courbould on the affairs of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, 1888), Edward Burne-Jones (4 pp. ('E.B-J.', to 'Stan' inviting him to Rottingdean, with a separate full signature), Henry Phillips, William Edward Frost (2, one to E.W. Cooke), Mary Ann Flaxman (1828), Frederick Leighton, Frank Holl, M.W. Ridley, W.W. Ouless, Briton Riviere, John Pettie, H.H. Armistead, Edwin Long, John Evan Hodgson (on Royal Academy business), John Gibson, Henry Sharpe, Richard Ansdell, T.S. Cooper, Linley Sambourne, Alfred Elmore, George Richmond, Walter Thornbury, Harry Furniss, William Etty (to Pickersgill), John Everett Millais, Daniel Maclise, Philip Calderon, W[illiam] B[ell] Scott (inits. reiterating his assertion that Watts had not written a controversial review in the Athenaeum), William Wetmore Story (sending Stale-Mate and commenting on errors in the first publication, 1884), Richard Doyle (to Spedding, damp-stained), Edwin Landseer (2 - 'On the 19th the friends of Dickens (Boz) give him a Dinner at Greenwich ...'), and others. Also included is a group of letters to Solomon Alexander Hart, largely on Royal Academy business, from Daniel Maclise, James Sant, C.W. Cope, Richard Partridge, John Knight, Richard Redgrave, Henrietta Ward, Eyre Crowe, Sydney Smirke, George Richmond; also KEATE (George) Epistle to Angelica Kauffmann, 4to, printed London 1781, disbound.

Lot 192

CRANE (Walter, illus.), Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden, Cassell's 1906, colour illustrations, pictorial boards.

Lot 381

CRANE (W), illus, EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS TO SHAKESPEARE'S TEMPEST, limited edition, no 322/650, signed by Walter Crane and Duncan Dallas; and, TWO GENTLEMEN FROM VERONA, no 160/650, both with illustrations on India paper, in book cases (lacking a plate to each and one plate with a tear) (2)

Lot 3037

Crane (Walter). Pan Pipes n.d.; and a quantity of other children's illustrated works, including several by Kate Greenaway and others, pictorial cloth, v.d., v.s.

Lot 408

Walter Crane, Pan Pipes. A book of Old Songs by Theo Marzials (London, Novello & Co) printed in colour by Edmund Evans. Pictorial boards

Lot 410

Walter Crane, The Baby's Opera: A Book of Old Rhymes (London, George Routledge), colour plates with a plate on the front free end paper signed Walter Crane

Lot 446

William Morris, Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (Kelmscott Press, 1893) Red and black text, comes with a Walter Crane illustrated bookmark

Lot 310

[CHILDRENS] 'Krakemsides, Baron'. The Careless Chicken, Warne, London, no date, green cloth with pictorial onlay, pictorial endpapers, vignette title page, sixteen colour plate illustrations by Harry Neilson, square octavo; Salaman, Merula. William and Cherry, first edition, The Cresset Press, London, 1943, cloth-backed pictorial boards, illustrations throughout, octavo; Gilbert, Henry. King Arthur's Knights, Jack, Edinburgh & London, 1911, grey cloth gilt, top edges gilt, frontispiece and a further fifteen colour plate illustrations by Walter Crane, octavo; and a further sixteen works, (19).

Lot 3200

CRANE, Walter. The First of May, a Fairy Masque. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1881. Limited edition of 300 copies, this number 130, signed by Walter Crane, oblong folio (383 x 437mm.) Printed on India paper mounted throughout. (Spotting, some light browning, minor marginal damp-staining.) Contemporary half-morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, title blocked in gilt to upper-cover (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, slightly affected by damp, disbound).

Lot 260

Illustrated Volumes: Walton (Izaak) The Complete Angler, 4to L. 1931. Cold. illus. etc. by Arthur Rackham, uncut, gilt decor. cloth; Don Quixote of the Mancha, Re-told by Judge Parry. Sm. 4to L. 1900. Illustrated cold. plts. & bl. & white illus. by Walter Crane, decor. cloth; Gray (Thos.) Elegy written in a Country Churchyard, 4to L. 1931. Illus. by Frank Adams, cloth. (3)

Lot 169

WILDE, Oscar - The Happy Prince and other tales : illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood, org. boards lightly soiled, 4to, David Nutt, second, 1889. With one other. (2)

Lot 314

[Art] - SPENCER, Isobel - Walter Crane, together with twenty-four other art reference books (25)

Lot 323

[Illustrated & Children's] - a small collection of illustrated books to include Arthur Rackham, Florence Harrison, Walter Crane etc to include children's interest

Lot 266

Walter Crane: "Legends for Lionel", one vol illust colour, "The Book of the Bear", Nonsuch Press 1926, and a number of other children's vols, various, including "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (error on page 503)

Lot 433

Wordsworth, William. Ode on The Intimations of Immorality from Recollections of Early Childhood, Published by Edward Arnold, Bedford Street, Strand, 1903, limited to 150 copies only , number 84, on vellum, hand-coloured frontispiece by Walter Crane

Lot 154

A late 19th Century Sowerby milk white pressed glass flower trough depicting Ice Skaters to one side, after a design by Walter Crane and the nursery rhyme Nickie, Nackie, Nievie to the other, length 10.5cm

Lot 134

A late 19th Century Sowerby milk white pressed glass trough depicting the Victorian nursery rhyme 'Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess, went out one day and found a bird's nest', after a design by Walter Crane, marked to the base, length 16cm

Lot 138

A late 19th Century Sowerby blue opaque pressed glass flower trough relief moulded in the 'Old King Cole' pattern, after a design by Walter Crane, marked, length 12.5cm

Lot 283

WALTER CRANE: 'Pot Hooks and Perseverance' and 'A Apple Pie' by Kate Greenaway and various other children's books

Lot 111

A Mason's charger from the Art Nouveau series in the swans pattern by Walter Crane, produced for the Victoria and Albert Museum 31 cm in diameter, together with two graduated 19th century blue and white printed jugs with floral and leaf detail, a Beswick model of a seated long-furred white cat with impressed number to base 1867, a Holmegaard blue art glass bowl of shallow form with etched mark to base and number 17792 diameter 23 cm approx, etc

Lot 7

Champney (Elizabeth W.). Three Vassar Girls Abroad, 1st edition, Boston, USA, 1882, numerous black and white illustrations by J. Wells Champney et al, period inscription to front endpaper, bookplate to front pastedown, original illustrated boards, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot with minor loss, 4to, together with Greenaway (Kate), Under the Window, 1st edition, 1887, numerous colour illustrations, some light spotting and minor marginal tears, original illustrated boards to green cloth spine, slightly rubbed to head and foot, 4to, plus Crane (Walter), Queen Summer or the Journey of the Lily & the Rose, numerous colour illustrations, bookplate and later inscription to front endpapers, guttering split, original illustrated boards to white cloth spine, rubbed with minor loss, 8vo, plus other mid to late 19th-century illustrated and juvenile literature, including G.A. Henty, Charles Kingsley, Jules Verne, all original cloth, some decorative, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4to (3 shelves)

Lot 22

Crane (Walter). The Bases of Design, 1898, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, The Decorative Illustration of Books, 2nd edition, 1901, original green cloth, both numerous black and white illustrations, bookplates to front pastedowns, some minor spotting, top edge gilt, spines slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with Caulfield (S.F.A.), The Dictionary of Needlework, an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework, 1882, numerous black and white illustrations, some minor toning, contemporary gilt-decorated red morocco rebound to later calf spine, slightly rubbed with minor loss, 4to, plus Chaffers (W.), Marks and Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain, with historical notices of each manufactory, 2nd edition, 1866, numerous black and white illustrations, head of title-page torn and removed, some light spotting, contemporary gilt-decorated red half calf, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus other 19th and early 20th-century needlecraft, ornament and design reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some leather bindings, condition is generally good, 8vo/4to (3 shelves)

Lot 474

Walter Crane : Queen Summer, 1891 & A Masque of Days, 1901. Both 1st. Eds. Qto Hb. with pictorial boards and buckram spine. Decorated eps. Colour plates in the characteristic Crane style with textual vignettes in a distinctive font. Together with : Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross, nd C. 1915. Qto. Hb. Tipped in colour plates. CONDITION REPORT: Some minor wear to the ext. of the Crane titles o/w bright copies. Dulac - slight splitting to lower hinge o/w a bright sound binding; sporadic foxing to text block o/w vg.

Lot 1885

Crane, Walter, illustrator. Don Quixote of the Mancha, coloured plates, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, London: Blackie and Son, [n.d.]; A Flower Wedding, coloured illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, 8vo, London: Cassell & Company, 1905; This Little Pig, His Picture Book, coloured plates, original cloth, 4to, London: John Lane, [n.d.]; and 12 others similar, v.s. (15)

Lot 335

Crane (Walter, illustrator). Wayfarer's Love. Contributions from Living Poets, edited by the Duchess of Sutherland, 1904, light toning to endpapers, original vellum gilt, upper cover designed by Walter Crane, small abrasion and one or two light spots, 4to, limited edition, 38/100 signed by the editor, together with The Venture. An Annual of Art and Literature, edited by Laurence Houseman and W. Somerset Maugham, Pear Tree Press, 1903, wood-engraved illustrations, stitching strained, endpapers a little toned, original linen-backed pictorial boards, slight edge wear, 4to, plus The Tale of Troy, Asphodel Press, 1925, colour illustrations by Phyllis and Delphis Gardner, marginal toning to endpapers from stitching, original blue limp reverse calf, spine and extremities faded, 4to (3)

Lot 358

Crane (Walter). Walter Crane's Picture Book, with the Original Designs in Colour printed by Edmund Evans, 1900, colour illustrations throughout, some mostly marginal spotting throughout, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed cloth, rebacked with original spine relaid, heavily rubbed and soiled, oblong 4to (limited edition 414/750 copies), together with Beardsley (Aubrey, illustrator), Ben Ionson His Volpone: or The Foxe, a new edition, 1898, black and white illustrations including frontispiece, original gilt-decorated cloth, a little rubbed, 4to, plus Dulac (Edmund, illustrator), Sindbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights, [1914], 23 tipped-in colour plates, original gilt-decorated cloth, slightly rubbed, 4to, plus others similar (16)

Lot 545

Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes: A Collection of Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales and Jingles, illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, John Tenniel, Harrison Weir, Walter Crane, and others, George Routledge and Sons, 1877, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations throughout including some full page, some occasional spotting, finger soiling and a few small marginal splits, pp. 81-82 near detached and a little frayed at extremities, final leaf slightly soiled and frayed at edges and rehinged with slight paper loss to inner margin, old pencil ownership name of Kathleen Hollis to front pastedown, contemporary green half morocco, slightly rubbed and soiled on upper cover, spine darkened, 4to A seemingly very uncommon edition of this book published under this title for the first time. The copy in the Osborne collection has a coloured frontispiece using the same illustration as here. (1)

Lot 590

Bingham (Clifton). The Soldier Panorama Book, a novel Colour Book for Children, Nister & Dutton, circa 1907, 5 double-page pop-up colour panoramas, minor marks, old scribbles to front endpapers, sellotape repair to title inner margin, hinges cracked and contents partly detached, original linen-backed pictorial boards, slightly rubbed and soiled with some edge wear, together with Crane (Walter), Goody Two Shoes Picture Book, [1901], colour plates including 2 double-page panoramas, original red cloth decorated and lettered in black, slight damp stain to foremargin of upper board, both 4to, plus Dixon (Captain C.M.), The Leaguer of Ladysmith, circa 1900, colour illustrations throughout, contemporary ownership inscription at head of title, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, somewhat soiled, edge wear, oblong folio, plus others similar (approx. 40)

Lot 579

The Old Garden and Other Verses by Margaret Deland decorated by Walter Crane and various other Victorian children's books

Lot 376

A varied selection of children's titles to include The Baby's Opera illustrated by Walter Crane, Pinocchio, Fairy Tales from Hans Andersen and Mrs Ernest Ames and The Bedtime Book

Lot 418

Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jocomb Hood Wilde (Oscar) The Happy Prince and other Tales, Jocomb Hood sm. 4to L. (David Nutt, 270 Strand) 1889. Second Edn., Hf. title, frontis, on reverse of title page, printed 'First Edition May 1888 / Second Edition January 1887,' plts. & designs, one leaf at end with small design (no imprint on reverse), t.e.g., in cont. hf. vellum by Hatchards gilt decor. spine & mor. labels. V. good Ex. Libris of Hubert Beaumont. Mason 315. (1)

Lot 526

Walter Crane: a collection of 12 Large Series Picture Books in 4 volumes

Lot 341

Morrell (Lady Harriette, 1843-1924). A collection of eleven sketchbooks, containing numerous pencil drawings and watercolours, many annotated and dated, one book full of sketched patterns and designs taken from textiles, architecture, and china, etc. (one inscribed 'Philip thinks this hideous'), the others containing a variety of subjects: portraits, landscapes, flower studies, street scenes, figure and animal studies, Continental scenes (one album entitled 'Rome 1912'), e.g. 'Old woman at Bruges', 'Ewelme, Almhouse', 'S. Michael's Mount', 'H.S.J. Morrell', 'The Ferry - Walberswick. Sep.19.1891.', 'Street in S. Maurice, Vallais Aug 23 1896', most volumes with Harriette's ownership at front (one inscribed by her 'a book of things & places I shall never see again -'), together with a scrapbook containing bookplates (including one designed by Walter Crane) and a few sketches relating to embroidery, with Harriette's bookplate on front pastedown, various bindings (two incorporating a paint palette), oblong 8vo Provenance: From the collection of Lady Ottoline Morrell, thence by descent. Harriette Anne, a keen and accomplished artist and needlewoman, was the daughter of the Reverend Philip Wynter, President of St John's College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. She married Frederick Parker Morrell, and they lived at Black Hall, St. Giles, Oxford. Their second son Philip Edward Morrell married Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck in 1902. A memorial exhibition of Harriette's needlework and painting was held at Black Hall the year after her death, from 2nd to 14th February, 1925, for which Blackwell's published a catalogue entitled 'Harriette Anne Morrell. Born 26th March 1843, died 9th November 1924: A description by herself of some of her needlework and painting, edited by her son'. Her painted screen (lot 487) formed part of the exhibition. (12)

Lot 115

'Little Boy Blue' a Maw & Co tile designed by Walter Crane, printed and hand coloured, three various tiles with Kate Greenaway type figures and two Carter tiles painted with acrobats, impressed marks, repaired damages 15.5cm. square (6)

Lot 207

Walter Crane (1845-1915) The Tempest, 1893 woodblock on paper, six prints in common frame signed with artist's cipher in print, foxing 130 x 34.5cm (overall)

Lot 259

Art Nouveau Walter Crane white damask tablecloth with swans and landscape design within a fruiting tree border, inscribed 'Double Damask' and 'Designed by Walter Crane, London', some discolouration, 312cm long and 218cm wide.

Lot 322

[Children's Illustrated] - a collection of eight illustrated children's books to include GREENAWAY, Kate - Marigold Garden and Mother Goose; CRANE, Thomas - London Town and At Home; CRANE, Walter, The Baby's Opera and The Baby's Bouquet; Sowerby, J. G - Afternoon Tea and Milne, A. A. The King's Breakfast (8)

Lot 415

Folio Society. Spenser's Faerie Queene, 3 volumes, Folio Society facsimile edition, 2011, illustrations by Walter Crane, top edges gilt, original white goatskin blocked in gilt, contemporary slipcase, 4to, limited edition, 486/1000, together with The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours MS 1058-1975, Folio Society, 2011 (limited edition, 242/1180) and Maria Perry's Elizabeth I, Folio Society, 1990 (6)

Lot 834

Crane, Walter (illustrator), 'Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden', pub. 1906, Cassell and Co., navy boards with pictorial. * Condition: Loose from spine, plates 12 and 13 bear circular 30mm water mark, bumped corners.

Lot 118

Walter Crane for Minton - Eight Nursery Rhyme tiles, each having polychrome transfer printed and painted decoration and comprising: Jack & Jill, Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush, Little Bo Peep, Who Killed Cock Robin, One Misty Moisty Morning, How Does My Lady's Garden Grow, My Pretty Maid and I Had A Little Nut Tree, 15.5cm x 15.5cm, framed Condition: All tiles are within modern stained green wooden frames which obscures the edges of the tiles so impossible to determine the degree if any of nibbling along the edges - **General condition consistent with age

Lot 264

Household Stories - Grimm - pub Macmillan - depicted by Walter Crane - printed 1922.

Lot 265

The Baby's Opera & The baby's Bouquet (2 copies) - Bookes of old rhymes and music - illustrated by Walter Crane

Lot 1113

Spenser (E) The Faerie Queene, illustrations by Walter Crane, edited by Thomas J Wise, six volumes, 1896

Lot 1602

Victorian illustrated children's books with illustrations by Walter Crane, R Caldecott, Frolich, Kate Greenaway, etc, 24 volumes

Lot 1623

AN ARTS & CRAFTS WALL HANGING ATTRIBUTED TO WALTER CRANE A Late C19th crewel worked embroidery of a galleon with the wind in its sails, the sun shining on the golden figure head, birds gliding above with the waves swirling below with a heart felt message 'So far So fast Warmed by the sun Youth sails before the Wind.' The golden coloured silk thread embroidered to a soft cream silk ground. Backed to a piece of gold coloured silk. (Good condition) 96" x 96" (1)

Lot 247

Ruskin J "Unto this Last" edition 1902, Caldecott's "Graphic Pictures", Pan Pipes buy Walter Crane and Theo Marzials and legends for Lionel (4). Condition report: see terms and conditions

Lot 123

A BOX OF ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS to include 'The Three Little Kittens' & 'Pussy's Holiday Fun' with coloured illustrations on linen, Walter Crane, H. Belloc, Struwwelpeter, Kate Greenaway etc.Condition Report:Please note: every page of every book is not checked, if you are unable to view yourself please ask for detailed information

Lot 126

OSCAR WILDE - 'THE HAPPY PRINCE and other tales', illustrated by Walter Crane & Jacomb Hood, third edition, David Nutt, 1902Condition Report:Worn covers, bookplate, inscription dated 1904, staining to title pagesPlease note: every page of every book is not checked, if you are unable to view yourself please ask for detailed information

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