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[Crawhall (Joseph)] Olde ffrendes wyth newe Faces hand-coloured woodcut illustrations many on coloured paper lightly browned modern half calf spine gilt London & New York 1883 § Milne (A.A.) Now We Are Six first edition half-title illustrations by E.H.Shepard slight staining to a few leaves one leaf with slight damage to upper margin contemporary half morocco spine gilt 1927 § Browning (Robert) The Pied Piper of Hamelin illustrations and decorations by Harry Quilter original cloth-backed marbled boards 1898 § History of Reynard the Fox (The) translated by F.S.Ellis frontispiece and decorations by Walter Crane many hand-coloured 1897 § Stevenson (R.L.) A Child`s Garden of Verses illustrations by Charles Robinson 1912 the last two modern calf-backed marbled boards; and 17 others children`s v.s. (22)

Walter Crane (1845-1915), ‘Fine Generally’, ‘Fine Warmer’, ‘Dull’, ‘Changeable’, ‘Unsettled’, ‘Thunderstorms’, watercolours over pencil (six), one signed with the artist’s device, each 12.5cm x 5.5cm, framed as one Please note: The description should readAfter Walter Crane, `Fine Generally`, `Fine Warmer`, `Dull`, `Changeable`, `Unsettled`, `Thunderstorms`, watercolours over print bases (six), one signed in the block with the artist`s device, each 12.5cm x 5.5cm, framed as one

CRANE, Walter. Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare’s Tempest. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1893. Limited edition of 650 copies, this number 373 of 600 for sale signed by Crane and Duncan Dallas, 4to (352 x 278mm.) Title-page printed in red and black, 8 Dallastype plates. (Light spotting and some rippling to plates.) Loose as issued within original cloth box (defective and worn).

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. – Walter CRANE. Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden. [London:] Cassell & Co Ltd., 1906. 4to (248 x 177mm.) Printed in colour and illustrated throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (extremities bumped). – And a quantity of other illustrated works, late 19th and early 20th Century (a quantity).

3 Children`s Books, "Nize Baby" by Milt Gross; "The Baby`s Opera" by Walter Crane and "Struwwelpeter" by Dr Heinrich Hoffmann (3)

Nine Childrens Books including KATE GREENAWAY, Marigold Garden, Painting Book (2), Little Ann, Under the Window, WALTER CRANE, The Baby`s Bouquet, Baby`s Opera (2) and J.H. Ewing The Peace Egg (9)

Walter Crane One Two Buckle My Shoe the set of 8 colour-printed wood-engravings each signed in the plate with the artist`s crane glyph first issued 1869 each c.205 x 155mm. (8 x 6 in); with a 19th century chromolithograph plate of National Coats of Arms (9).

WALTER CRANE. "Goody Two-Shoes Picture Book." Four stories in one, 24 col plts printed Evans, orig pict gt cl, 4to, recased, Routledge c1870, good.

WALTER CRANE`S TOY BOOKS. "The Hind in the Wood.", "The Frog Prince.", "Aladdin or The Wonderful Lamp.", "Beauty and the Beast.", the four with col plts comp, orig col wps, 4to, Routledge, c1870 good, last item small repairs.

WALTER CRANE. "Mother Hubbard`s Picture Book." col plts comp, orig pict cl, dj, 4to, Lane c1905, good.

WALTER CRANE. 4 vols Lane re-issue "The Fairy Ship.", "Bluebeard.", "The Sleeping Beauty.", "Mother Hubbard." orig wps, 4to, c1905, good.

WALTER CRANE. "Baby`s Bouquet.", "Baby`s Own Aesop.", Baby`s Opera.", the three vols col plts comp, orig cl backed pict bds, 10 hinges repaired, sm 4to all Routledge, c1870, good.

"WALTER CRANE`S New Toy Book." col plts comp, lacks title page, recased, 4to inscr 1873 g; plus "Walter Crane`s Painting Book." orig wps small 4to, Warne, c 1930 g.

WALTER CRANE. "Flora`s Feast, a Masque of Flowers" 1st edn, 40 col plts incl title comp, orig cl-backed dec bds, 4to, Cassell 1892 vg, plts unopened. (See illustration)

Churchill (Winston Spencer) The Story of the Malakand Field Force new edition of the Colonial Library Edition frontispiece portrait 2 folding maps 5 plans Riwaka Library stamp to half-title and endpaper original pictorial cloth rubbed & worn London and Bombay 1898 § Deland (Margaret) The Old Garden first edition colour-printed title decorations and borders by Walter Crane ink inscription to endpaper A.L.s. from the illustrator tipped onto front endpaper original pictorial cloth spine darkened rubbed 1893 8vo & 4to (2)(2)

Art Reference Morris, William By himself. London, 1989. 4to, edited by Gillian Naylor, original cloth dustwrapper; Chiswick Press The golden ass of Apuleius. London, 1904. 4to, number 81 of 200 copies, original cloth, paper labels, discoloured, foxing to early leaves; Moon, Karen George Walton. Oxford, 1993. 4to, contain typed letter signed from author, dustwrapper; Volpe, Tod Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement 1890-1920. London, 1988. 4to, dustwrapper; Spencer, Isabel Walter Crane. New York, 1975. 4to, dustwrapper; Becker, Vivienne Art Nouveau jewelry. New York, 1985. First edition, 4to, dustwrapper; Grover, Ray & Lee Carved and decorated European art glass. Vermont, 1970. 4to, dustwrapper [torn]; Kemplay, John The paintings of John Duncan. San Francisco, 1994. Oblong 4to, dustwrapper; Byars, Mel The design encyclopedia. London, 1994. 4to, dustwrapper; and 42 others including 8 volumes of the Studio (50)

A large collection of buttons of note, a group of 19th century brass animal buttons, one shows a kitten and a pair show heron after Walter Crane, a collection of Czechoslovakian glass paperweight buttons including some on retail cards, together with some mother of pearl buckles.

CRANE (Walter) The Claims of Decorative Art, London: Lawrence and Bullen 1892, 8vo, author`s inscription to half title, some pencil notes to margins, cloth spine rubbed and damaged

Ephemera – Books – Walter Crane a Flower Wedding Cassell & Company 1905. Decorative boards slight rubbing to edges cloth spine. Ownership signature cut from inside cover leading to a small blemish on title page but otherwise unblemished. Interior contents fine. A rare and sought after book.

A box of mainly childrens books, including Walter Crane, Beatrix Potter, Allison Uttley, Andrew Lang

Caldecott, Ralph - Crane, Walter - Greenaway, Kate A apple pie. London: Frederick Warne, [no date]. Oblong 4to, illustrated by Kate Greenaway, original cloth backed boards, some slight rubbing to edges; Ewing, Juliana Hortia Jackanapes. London, 1884. 8vo, illustrated by Ralph Caldecott, original cloth backed boards; Caldecott, Ralph Ride a-cock horse to Banbury... London, [no date]. Oblong 8vo, one of Caldecott`s Picture Books, original printed boards; [Idem] An elegy on the glory of her sex... London, [no date]. Oblong 8vo, one of Caldecott`s Picture Books, original printed boards; [Idem] The great Panjandrum himself. London, [no date], Oblong 8vo, one of Caldecott`s Picture Books, original printed boards; and 12 others (17) Provenance: From the library of Charles William Stewart, illustrator.

A Wedgwood "Clarice Cliff Centenary" plate, diameter 12"; 2 Mason`s reproduction Art Nouveau plates "Iris by Brantjes" and "Swans by Walter Crane", diameter 12½"

Crane, Walter, illustrator, & Marzials, Theo. Pan-Pipes. A Book of Old Songs, second edition, Routledge, London no date. Bevelled pictorial boards, colour illustrations throughout printed by Edmund Evans, oblong quarto; and seven others volumes of childrens songs, including three by A.A. Milne, (8).

CRANE, WALTER. Queen Summer..., 1891. 4to., orig. pictorial cloth backed boards (bit soiled). Illustrations. With another by the same, and 3 vols. by Palmer Cox, (soiled, one with contents leaf loose). (5)

Tuck (Raphael, & Sons, pub.). Picture-Building A B C. Contents:- Three Little Kittens, The Three Little Pigs, The Three Bears. Each Picture when taken to pieces contains the 26 Letters of the Alphabet which can again be built up to form the complete picture, [cover-title], c.1917, three chromo. thick card puzzles, some minor surface rubbing and sl. damage, and Three Pigs with upper margin dust-soiled, but all pieces present, contained in remains of orig. cardboard box (dusty and broken), with pictorial label on lid, and contemp. ms. inscription on base, 270 x 225 mm (10.75 x 8.75 ins), together with Our Little Folk’s ABC, n.p., c.1910, twenty-six wooden blocks, each with letter of the alphabet on one side and col. illust. on opposing side, 45 x 45 x 19 mm (1.75 x 1.75 x .75 ins), contained in orig. cardboard box, with col. pictorial label on lid, box with some light staining and rubbing, 200 x 293 x 26 mm (8 x 11.5 x 1 ins), plus Baby’s ABC, Cloth Lined, [cover title], Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., c.1920s, col. litho. illusts. throughout, margins lightly finger-marked and dusty, contemp. ms. inscription on front pastedown, centre four leaves detached from staples, orig. chromo. card covers, sl. rubbed and dusty, slim folio, plus Mother Hubbard’s Picture Book, illust. by Walter Crane, orig. cloth, sl. worn at spine ends, 4to, and a modern brass alphabet hornbook (5)

Tuck (Raphael, pub.). A Day in the Forest, To Myrtle Grove Farm [cover-title], [by Ruth E. Adomeit], 1895, six pop-up chromo. illusts. on thick card leaves bound concertina style, orig. col. pictorial boards, upper cover with hinged ‘gate’ (sl. creased), oblong 8vo, together with [Moore, Clement C.], The Night Before Christmas, or a Visit of St. Nicholas, New York, McLoughlin Bros., 1896, [cover-title], chromo. illusts. throughout, incl. double-page centre-spread, upper corners creased, one or two short edge-tears, orig. col. pictorial card covers, sl. rubbed and dusty, slim folio, plus Jarrold & Sons (pub.), Jock & Jerry, A Story in Few Words, c.1895, chromo. illusts. throughout, final illust. sl. rubbed, orig. col. pictorial card covers in the shape of a house, lower cover with some surface loss and with short tear in fore-edge, spine with old sewn repair, slim oblong 4to, plus twenty-two other children’s and illustrated books, incl. Walter Crane, Nisters, Beatrix Potter, Caldecott, etc. (25)

Crane (Walter). Colombia’s Courtship: A Picture History of the United States in Twelve Emblematic Designs in Color with Accompanying Verses, pub. Prang, Boston, [1893], twelve colour plates, endpapers a little spotted, original cloth, edges a little rubbed, 4to, together with Pan Pipes. A Book of Old Songs, Newly Arranged & with Accompaniments by Theo. Marzials, 1883, coloured illustrations by Walter Crane, light spotting, presentation inscription, original cloth, a little chipped and rubbed, oblong folio, with two others illustrated by Walter Crane: Queen Summer or the Journey of the Lily & the Rose, 1891 and Rumbo Rhymes or the Great Combine. A Satire, 1911. (4)

Crane (Walter, illust.). Spenser’s Faerie Queene, edited by Thomas J. Wise, 19 original parts, George Allen, 1894-97, numerous plts. and illusts., untrimmed, orig. printed wrappers, some edge-creasing, mostly to lower edges, part X with a few minor marks on lower cover, with two pubs. slips loosely inserted (one stating the limitation; the other thanking Mssrs. Waterlow & Sons for printing the illustrations), contained in three cloth solander boxes, 4to. Rare limited edition, one of twenty-seven on Japanese vellum (of a total edition of 1027 copies). (19)

Crane (Walter, illust.). Rumbo Rhymes; or the Great Combine: A Satire; written by Alfred C. Calmour, 1st ed., 1911, numerous full-page col. illusts., patterned endpapers, orig. cloth-backed printed boards, 8vo, together with Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden: a Posy from the Plays, 1st ed., 1906, full-page col. illusts. throughout, patterned endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, some v. sl. rubbing to extrems., 4to (2)

Crane (Walter, illust.). Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden, a Posy from the Plays, Cassell, 1906, full-page col. illusts. throughout, some minor spotting, mostly to edges, patterned endpapers, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, sl. rubbed and foxed, 4to, together with Rumbo Rhymes; or the Great Combine: A Satire; written by Alfred C. Calmour, 1911, col. double-page title, and twenty-two col. plts., patterned endpapers, orig. cloth-backed printed boards, soiled, extrems. rubbed, 8vo, plus Little Queen Anne, and Her Majesty’s Letters (Patent.), 1886, col. illusts. throughout, occn. foxing and finger-soiling, patterned endpapers, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and dust-soiled, slim 4to, plus eleven others illust. by Crane and a copy of Punch & Judy written by Frederic E. Weatherly, illust. by Patty Townend (15)

Crane (Walter, illust.). Pan Pipes; A Book of Old Songs, Routledge, 1883, colour litho. illusts., decorative endpapers, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, oblong 4to, together with Le Mair (H. Willebeek), The Children’s Corner, [1915?], colour plates, owner inscription to title, inner joints cracking, orig. pictorial cloth, oblong 4to, plus other early 20th century children’s books including several early editions of Beatrix Potter books, some in defective condition (approx. 32)

Allingham (William). The Fairies, A Child’s Song, Thos. de la Rue, [1883], pp.24, col. and b & w illusts. by E. Gertrude Thomson, orig. printed green wrappers, spine rubbed, upper cover with tip of lower outer corner missing, oblong 4to, together with Greenaway (Kate), Almanack for 1884, col. illusts., half-title and pastedowns lightly foxed, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cream wrappers, a few faint finger-marks, 12mo, plus thirty-six other children’s and illust. books, incl. Cecil Aldin, Caldecott, Walter Crane, Edward Lear, Florence and Bertha Upton, some in poor condition and defective (38)

CRANE. Walter, The Sirens Three, a poem written and illustrated Walter Crane, pub London 1886, 1st edit, decorative binding (1)

Walter Crane, R.W.S. (1845-1915) Three illustrations for Arthur Kelly's The Rosebud and Other Tales - 'The Rosebud' all signed with monogram (lower left and lower right) and inscribed 'THE ROSEBUD' (lower left) pen and black ink and watercolour, three in one frame 8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.3 cm.); and smaller Sold with accompanying book, which is inscribed by the author 'Margaret/with love from/Arthur. Xmas 1909'. (3) View on Christie's.com

Walter Crane, R.W.S. (1845-1915) Three illustrations for Arthur Kelly's The Rosebud and Other Tales - 'The Lump of Coal' the first signed with monogram (lower right) and inscribed '"Spring had come"/THE/LUMP OF/COAL' (lower left); the second and third signed with monogram (lower right) pen and black ink and watercolour, two heightened with white 8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.3 cm.) (3) View on Christie's.com

Walter Crane, R.W.S. (1845-1915) Three illustrations and a preparatory study for Arthur Kelly's The Rosebud and Other Tales - 'The Lawn Tennis Ball' one signed with monogram (upper left) and three signed with monogram (lower left) and inscribed 'THE LAWN. TENNIS. BALL.' (lower left) pen and black ink and watercolour, one heightened with white, three in one frame 8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.3 cm.) (4) View on Christie's.com

Walter Crane, R.W.S. (1845-1915) One illustration for Arthur Kelly's The Rosebud and Other Tales - 'The Little Animal' signed with monogram and inscribed 'THE LITTLE ANIMAL' (lower left) pen and black ink and watercolour 8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.3 cm.) View on Christie's.com

† THE ARCHIVE OF PILKINGTON`S TILE & POTTERY CO LIMITED SUBSEQUENTLY THE PILKINGTON`S ROYAL LANCASTRIAN POTTERY COMPANY LIMITED AND PILKINGTON`S TILES LIMITED EXTENDING OVER A PERIOD OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM THE LATE 19TH CENTURY including pattern books of original designs for tiles, pocket notebooks of glaze formulae and firings, photographs and documents (for details please see online catalogue at mellorsandkirk.com) A red marl, ideal for pottery was discovered by accident at the Pilkington brothers` colliery at Clifton Junction, near Manchester in 1888. Coal extraction no longer an option because of geological problems, the firm decided to manufacture bricks. On the advice of William Burton, a brilliant young chemist at Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, they instead established a high quality, decorative tile works. In 1891 the Pilkington Tile & Pottery Company was formed with Burton as its General Manager and also charged with the planning and building (without the aid of an architect) of what soon became one of the most advanced and extensive tile works. Production commenced in 1891 and two years later Burton was joined by his equally talented brother, Joseph whose research into new glazes was to prove invaluable. For the ensuing ninety years or so Pilkington`s tiles sold throughout the British Empire, Commonwealth and beyond. The scientific and technical expertise of the Burtons was such that the Company even explored the possibility of manufacturing pottery bullets, at the request of the War Office. A department specifically for the production of art pottery in particular lustre ware, began in about 1898. Under Burton`s enlightened management, the welfare of his workforce was a high priority with, for example, those working in the Lead House being given milk in an attempt to counteract the possible effects of lead poisoning. He also arranged for the artistic staff to go, expenses paid, to exhibitions including the Exposition Universelle in Paris, in 1900. William Burton was of that generation of ceramicists inspired by the unsurpassed sang de boeuf and other glazes of the early Chinese potters and it is not surprising that, largely due to his artistic sensitivity, some of the brightest stars in the Arts & Crafts firmament - including Walter Crane, C F A Voysey and Lewis F Day - were involved at Pilkington`s from the beginning. By the early 20th century the superb lustre ware, mainly chargers and vases, and painted by such talented artists as Gordon Forsyth and Richard Joyce were in a class of their own. In their proper art historical context these magnificent objects can be regarded as a continuation of the pioneering lustre wares of William Morris`s lifelong friend William de Morgan (1839-1917). The notable achievements of Howson-Taylor`s Ruskin Pottery, Bernard Moore and William Moorcroft, although equally original, lay in other directions. Never made in large quantities, the costly (not least because of high wastage) unique iridescent lustre glazes, fired in a reducing atmosphere in a muffle kiln, have always been regarded as amongst the finest such wares of their type, whether produced in England, Europe or America. An important constituent of the present archive is the group of experimental glaze firing records and books of formulae. Lustre ware was gradually superseded by the much cheaper eggshell glazed Lapis range produced in the 1920s & `30s. In truth, the lustre ware was never really profitably produced, and the Department was probably continued for reasons of prestige. De Morgan enjoyed no greater success, observing, in 1907, "...now that I can make [beautiful things] nobody wants them." The Pottery Department closed down, for the first time, in 1937. Over the subsequent history of the factory it was revived once or twice and in 1964 a merger with Carter & Co`s Poole Pottery heralded a short-lived revival in the fortunes of both factories. Complementing the limited holdings already in institutional collections, the importance of these extensive and unique primary source records of one of the most significant British manufacturers of pottery and tiles of the highest quality, lies in the fact that they are very far from being mere `dry` financial records. PILKINGTON ARCHIVE The factory records will generally be found in chronological sequence, much of the work of arranging/filing having been done in recent years by the Pilkington’s Lancastrian Pottery Society. It is housed in approximately twenty cardboard ‘bank’ and larger sized boxes. The principal items of interest are as follows: POTTERY AND TILE PRODUCTION 1. Three tile pattern books of original designs for wall tiles (see A J Cross, plt 6) 2. Original designs for 6 inch wall tiles including children’s, humorous and other subjects, c1920-c1950, all gouache some on watercolour board (approximately 350) 3. Tracings and pounce sheets for decorative tiles 4. Factory patents relating to various aspects of the production and decoration of tiles 5. Twenty-five notebooks written in pencil and filled with detailed records of glaze experiments, firing times etc with a further notebook labelled Index to Trial Books, by Abraham Lomax for the period 1901-11 and Joseph Burton, 1911-15. 6. Photographs, four boxes of glass negatives (12 x 16.5cm) of lustre and other vases either photographed singularly or in groups of usually two or three and two boxes of magic lantern slides, also eight reels of 16cm cine film colour, optical/sound: “Tile Fixing Today” 7. A quantity of original designs for tiled chimneypieces (one illustrated in A J Cross, plt 10) gouache on watercolour sketching board and miscellaneous designs on tracing paper for architectural ceramics CORRESPONDENCE Documents generally filed in manila envelopes including the company’s attendance at national/international exhibitions, insurance relating thereto, other insurance policies for salesmen/travellers overseas, An Enquiry into the Boiler Explosion and Fatal Accident 1911, files of business letters and copy letters including internal memoranda relating to glazes, samples overseas orders, screen printing equipment, production tables and miscellaneous subjects. An extensive series of mainly autograph letters signed to William Burton, many from his brother Joseph, others from the Pilkingtons including Alfred, Edward, Laurence and Charles (one dated August 1895 “I send you herewith a sample of red marl out of our borehole... I don’t think it is very good”), W Bush, J Lee Wood, John Chambers, trade suppliers/contractors such as William Boulton (engineer) many in the Potteries, including Frank Keeling, Maw & Co, John Ridgway, Cravan, Dunnill & Co and the Old Hall Porcelain Works, Hanley, several letters from the employees of other manufacturers seeking positions at Pilkington’s, artists such as Cosmo Rowe (1877-1952), mosacists and others, several hundreds filed in two modern white ring binders, period 1889-1894 and 1895-1901. Home Office Whitehall, framed typed letter signed (Edward Thorp) 3 September 1913 to the Company’s solicitors informing Pilkington’s that the king [Goerge V] has granted permission for the use of the tile “Royal Lancastrian Pottery” for their “artistic pottery”. FINANCIAL RECORDS Important documents in the factory’s history including the Certificate of Incorporation, Memorandum and Articles of Association of The Pilkington’s Pottery Company Limited, 1891 and Certificate of Incorporation for change of name to Pilkington’s Tile and Pottery Co Limited, 1892 and approximately 75 ledgers and journals including cash books, expenses, general journals, tile fixing accounts, tile stock, share certificates, wages books and analysis of new work, 1892 onwards.

Sowerby Ivory Queen`s Ware pressed glass posy vase formed as a basket, having twelve panels each displaying a daisy, internal trade mark and registration lozenge for 1879, 14.5cm wide, a Sowerby Ivory Queen`s Ware pressed glass circular shaped bowl with twin pierced comb style handles, having internal fluted and scroll body decoration with external floral panels, external trade mark and diamond registration lozenge for 1879 to base, 19cm diameter and a Sowerby pressed flint glass oval shaped posy vase having external moulded decoration depicting Little Bo-Peep after a design by Walter Crane, trade mark to base, 8.5cm high

A Maw & Co lustre vase dated 1901 designed by Walter Crane, the ovoid body raised on pedestal base and with tapering neck and red lustre decoration depicting classical figures within art nouveau, pomegranate and scrolling foliate sinuous borders, painted in red to base `Maw & Co Ltd, Jackfield, Shropshire, Octr 1901`, both handles missing neck restored and repaired, heavily crazed throughout, 27cm high George & Arthur Maw set up Maw and Co. in 1850 at Worcester. Two years later they moved to Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire and in 1882 they expanded, opening another plant, The Benthall Works, at Jackfield, Shropshire. Towards the end of the nineteenth century they started making high quality art pottery and enlisted the help of well known artists such as Lewis Day and Walter Crane to design both art pottery and tiles. Their work was exhibited at the most prestigious fairs including the Chicago World Fair of 1893 and they were chosen for the decorative work on the Maharaja`s palace at Mysore. Another very similar example of this vase in green lustre is held in the collections of The Shrewsbury Museum.

Crane (Walter). Renascence, a Book of Verse, 1891, untrimmed, qtr. japanese vellum with paper label to spine, small 4to, Limited ed., 272/350, together with Avelot (Henri), Philibert’s Bright Idea, 1932, col. plts., b&w illusts. to text, orig. cloth, 4to, plus approx. fifty other antiquarian childrens interest, some in French (2 cartons)

Crane (Walter). A collection of books illustrated by Walter Crane, incl. four copies of the Baby’s Bouquet, two copies of The Baby’s Opera, three copies of Baby’s Own Aesop, incl. a publisher’s mock-up (with all blank after Contents), plus other miscellaneous books and ephemera, incl. eighteen books by Mrs. Molesworth (some illust. by Walter Crane), fourteen copies of Reproductions of Woodcuts by F. Sandys, 1860-1866, [1915], and a defective copy of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Pig and Miss Crane, with Walter Crane’s ownership signature on front wrapper. From the estate of Anthony Crane, Walter Crane’s grandson. (2 cartons)

GREENAWAY, Kate, (Ill.) `The Queen of The Pirate Isle`, by Bret Harte, Chatto & Windus, nd. slim 4to. Pict. bds. Tog.with CRANE, Walter (Ill.)`Aladdin`s Picture Book`, Routledge, nd. Pict. bds. Plus NADEJEN, Theodore (Ill.) `Gessar-Khan a Legend of Tibet`, Told by Ida Zeitlin. Doran, NY, 1927. 4to. cl. bd. chipped d/w. 3

Locker-Lampson (Frederick) Two albums compiled by one containing a cut paper silhouette portrait of him as a child; proofs of three Locker-Lampson related etchings by George Cruikshank; an etched half-length portrait of him by Millais; a complete set of the nineteen wood-engraved illustrations by Richard Doyle to “A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker” 1865; two different etched portrait s of Locker-Lampson from a drawing by Du Maurier one by C.W. Sherborn; four wood-engraved illustrations by Randolph Caldecott for Mrs. Locker`s “What the Blackbird Said”; four of his bookplates including examples by Walter Crane Kate Greenaway and Henry Stacy Marks; an ink and watercolour drawing by Kate Greenaway of a boy sailing through the air in an upturned umberella signed with initials and a small engraving by William Blake half morocco g.e.; the other containing “Josh Billings Farmer`s Almanack for the year 1871”; an article on Tennyson by Anne Thackeray Ritchie extracted from Harper`s Magazine; a printed copy of Thmas Carlyle`s will and related cuttings; five Punch Almanacks with illustrations by Richard Doyle John Leech and others; the text of a lecture on George Eliot by George W.E. Russell with the accompanying signed autograph letter; three issues of “Punch” one with an article referring to Mrs. Locker`s “What the Blackbird Said” with an illustration caricaturing Kate Greenaway Walter Crane Randolph Caldecott Harrison Weir Stacy Marks and several publishers one with a poem by Locker-Lampson; and an issue of “Moonshine” with an illustration of Locker-Lampson with Alfred Tennyson half vellum the contents listed on spine 4to *** Frederick Locker Lampson first met Kate Greenaway after being sent her verses for Under the Window by Edmund Evans on the behalf of Routledges who wanted his suggestions for revisions to the text. The meeting led to a seventeen year friendship during which he had considerable influence on her life and work. The watercolour included in the first album is unlike Kate Greenaway`s normal work but there are similarities to the two rather droll illustrations in Under the Window for “The Little Fat Goblin” and “Prince Finikin and his Mama”. It seems probable that drawing was made at about the same time and given to Locker-Lampson during the preparation of the book.

Crane (Walter) Flora`s Feast, A Masque of Flowers, 1889, colour illustrations throughout, original cloth-backed printed boards; id., William Morris to Whistler, 1911, original cloth; id., An Artist`s Reminiscences, 1907, original cloth; with three others (6)

Varley, Rev. Telford - Hampshire . First ed., 1909. 75 colour plates by Wilfred Ball, R.E. Together with Wise, John R. - The New Forest; It s History and It s Scenery . 63 illustrations by Walter Crane. 2 maps. 1895 and 115 others of Hampshire interest including many on Southampton and the New Forest. (117) £70-90

A Sowerby glass posy vase in mauve with illustration from `The Baby`s Opera` by Walter Crane, circa 1880, with peacock mark

`Jack and Jill` a lithographic print by Walter Crane, with lyrics to the nursery rhyme, in common frame, and another print by Walter Crane printed monogram Jack and Jill image 15cm. square

CRANE, Walter. Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden. [London:] Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1906. 8vo (248 x 183mm.) Printed in colours throughout, decorative title, numerous illustrations, all by Crane. (Light browning occasional spotting or soiling.) Original cloth-backed boards (extremities lightly bumped and soiled).

CRANE, Walter, The Sirens Three, A Poem, pub Macmillan & Co, 1886, A Masque of Days, pub Cassell & Co, 1901, PARRY, T. Wilson, Dream Fairies, illus Gerald Aylmer, Little Songs of Long Ago, illus H. Willebeck Le Mair, tunes by Alfred Moffat, and CALDECOTT, The Fox Jumps over the Parsons Gate, A/F (5)

Walter Crane (1845-1915) Hermann and Dorothea Signed with a monogram Pen and ink heightened with white 18 x 13cm; 7 x 5in ++Some yellowing to the margins otherwise good

WALTER CRANE. "The Shepheard`s Calendar" by Edmund Spenser. 12 wood engr plts frontis, title and surrounds designed Walter Crane orig pict cloth gilt, uncut, sm 4to Harper 1898 vg copy. (See illustration.)

An old tin containing first day covers with American stamps, commemorative coins various and a childs book of rhymes by Walter Crane

A selection of vintage children`s volumes including Walter Crane

Children`s. Through the Looking-Glass 1932 seventieth thousand frontispiece bookplate to paste-down original cloth spine faded g.e. 1932 § Melville (Herman) Moby Dick or The Whale deluxe edition frontispiece original cloth dust-jacket spine faded torn and chipped New York 1937 § Crane (Walter) An Artist`s Reminiscences fore-edges spotted portrait frontispiece original cloth marked and browned 1907 § Ruskin (John editor) Dame Wiggins of Lee fourth edition illustrations original cloth 1906; and others similar v.s. (2 boxes)

Skoal": A Maw and Co Pottery Twin-Handled Lustre Vase, designed by Walter Crane, of compressed ovoid form with everted neck and applied with two handles, painted in ruby lustre with Nordic warriors, inscribed Skoal, painted Walter Crane monogram and 9420 E, 23cm (chip to rim) See illustration Walter Crane designed six vases for Maw and Co in 1890. These included The Six Swans, Mermaid and Skoal.

Crane (Walter, illust.). Pan-Pipes. A Book of Old Songs, Newly Arranged by Theo Marzials, 2nd ed., pub. Routledge, c. 1883, chromolithographed illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, (scarce) d.j., old repairs to rear panel, a few minor chips, oblong folio, together with Aladdin’s Picture Book, c. 1876, 21 coloured plates, scattered light spotting, original cloth, slightly rubbed, 4to, with three others illustrated by Walter Crane including Queen Summer or the Journey of the Lily & the Rose, 1891 and The Baby’s Own Aesop, 1887 (5)

Philip`s Atlas for beginners C.1894, Robertson and Bartholomew atlas, C.1924 and other books inc Festival of Britain 1951 and The Baby`s Opera Walter Crane

* Sandys (Frederick Augustus, 1829-1904). Pencil studies for a prostrate female figure used in the engraved illustration for Christina Rossetti’s ‘Amor Mundi’, c. 1865, four full-length pencil studies on paper with one further garment detail, two of the figures finished with full facial details (including one with face-down reflection), three of the studies with full clothing details, some white bodycolour to paper extremities, 165 x 245mm (6.5 x 9.75ins), framed and glazed with a copy of the finished wood engraving laid under the glass . Provenance: Family of Anthony Crane, grandson of Walter Crane and son of Lionel Crane and Winifred Sandys. Winifred was the daughter of (Anthony) Frederick Sandys, the English painter and draughtsman. Frederick Sandys, son of the portrait painter Anthony Sandys, was born and trained at Norwich. Working in a Pre-Raphaelite vein Millais thought highly of him and Rossetti, with whom he lived briefly in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, considered him to be ‘the greatest of living draughtsmen’. He contributed numerous drawings for periodicals of the day including Cornhill Magazine and Good Words. In the 1860s he began to exhibit paintings, the best known being ‘Vivien’ (1863), ‘Morgan le Fay’ (1864), ‘Cassandra’ and ‘Medea’. He also made a number of chalk drawings of men of letters, including Tennyson, Browning and Matthew Arnold. ‘Sandys’s own favourite among his wood engravings was the ‘Amor Mundi’, which appeared in The Shilling Magazine (1865) as an illustration for Christina Rossetti’s poem. The ‘Amor Mundi’ [a reversed image of the example included in this lot] is a beautiful, slightly unpleasant, and extraordinarily suggestive drawing, depicting two lovers strolling down the easy part of sensuality to the hidden hollow where death lies waiting. Not Death as he is usually symbolized, but the dead and corrupted body of this very woman, now hanging in foolish soulless laughter on her lover’s arm. A rat gnaws at the tattered wrist of the corpse, whose flesh Christina describes as ‘pale’, but to which Sandys has given the terrible hues of putrefaction, ’ (Forrest Reid, ‘Illustrators of the Eighteen Sixties’ (1928), p. 60. (1)

Artists.- A good group of letters including: G.F. Watts, "I regard my pictures, & they are to be regarded less as works of art than an endeavour to put ideas & reflections into a universal language which shall have nobility & beauty for its basis. each one of the most important belongs to & forms part of the series"; John Varley, David Wilkie (2 and an engraved portrait), John Linnell, Owen Jones, "What would a fair price to give per lb for 24 second hand lithographic stones with drawings upon them which would take some time to rub off"; William Bonnard, Julius Ibbotson, Thomas Phillips, Augustus John Atkinson, "I can assure you I never received any pension from the Emperor Paul " of Russia; Edward Gordon Craig, George Cattermole (3 and a lithograph); Charles Cattermole (6 including a sketch); George Fripp, Robert Smirke (3), Sir Charles Eastlake, F. Topham, W.H. Pyne, Prince Hoare, Bernard Partridge (3); John Sassoon, G.S. Newton (pencil sketch of Lady Lewis when Miss Villiers); R.S. Holford, John Hayes, Sir Thomas Lawrence (1 letter and 3 notes and 7 illustrations including 6 portraits); Daniel Maclise (2 and 2 envelopes); A.J. Munnings, Seymour Lucas (4 and an envelope); William Yarrell, George Birkett Foster, Laurence Alm a Tadema (2); G.E. Hering (3); John Gilbert, Walter Crane, Augustus John (2); Francis Philip Stephanoff (7); James Stephanoff (8); George Hayter (18 items), folds, a few laid down, some with browning, v.s., v.d.(c. 170 pieces)