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Click here to subscribe* GREENAWAY (Kate) Illustrator. Seven works, colour printed by Edmund Evans, published by George Routledge & Sons: Little Ann, Kate Greenaway`s Book of Games, A Apple Pie (recased), A Day in a Child`s Life, Under the Window, The English Spelling Book 1885 (worn), The Queen of the Pirate Isle (Chatto and Windus), all early or first editions; with 3 vols illustrated by Walter Crane (10)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel "Wonder Book for Girls and Boys with 60 designs by Walter Crane", Harper and Brothers, London and New York, 1892, colourplates, ffep loose, pictorial cloth, somewhat worn and rubbed, Clement, De La Mare, Walter "Desert Islands and Robinson Caruso" with decorations by Rex Whistler, Faber and Faber 1930, pictorial end papers, turquoise cloth, gilt titles, spine and front board faded, Derrick, Thomas "Everyman", J.N. Dent and Sons 1930, "The setting of the text has been arranged and the pictures drawn and cut on wood by Thomas Derrick", brown cloth, gilt titles (3)
Crane (Walter). The Blue Beard Picture Book, Containing Blue Beard, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Sleeping Beauty, pub. Routledge, [1875], thirty-two leaves with fine coloured illustrations printed by Edmund Evans, signed by the illustrator Walter Crane to front endpaper, original gilt-decorated dark blue cloth, in very good condition, 4to. Provenance: By descent from the estate of the artist. (1)
Crane (Walter). Goody Two Shoes” Picture Book containing Goody Two Shoes, Beauty and the Beast, The Frog Prince, An Alphabet of Old Friends, pub. Routledge, [1874], twenty-four pages of colour illustrations, printed by Edmund Evans (including four double-page plts.), signed by the artist Walter Crane to head of title, orig. cloth highly decorated in black and gold, minor fraying to extreme head and foot of spine and outer corners, 4to. Provenance: By descent from the estate of the artist. (1)
Crane (Walter). This Little Pig His Picture Book, containing This Little Pig, The Fairy Ship, King Luckieboy, Red Riding Hood’s Picture Book: containing: Little Red Riding Hood, Jack & the Beanstalk, The Forty Thieves, Bluebeard’s Picture Book, containing: Bluebeard, The Sleeping Beauty, and Baby’s Own Alphabet, & The Song of Sixpence Picture Book, containing Sing a Song of Sixpence, Princess Belle Etoile, An Alphabet of Old Friends, all pub. John Lane, [1895, 1898, 1899 & 1909], three parts to each vol., each with separate title-page, illustrated in colour throughout, printed by Edmund Evans, the first three titles signed in ink by the artist Walter Crane, a little rubbed and some marks and soiling to edges, 4to. Provenance: By descent from the estate of the artist. (4)
Crane (Walter). King Luckieboy’s Picture Book, containing King Luckieboy’s Party, 1, 2, Buckle My Shoe, The Fairy Ship, This Little Pig Went to Market, The Song of Sixpence Toy Book, containing Sing a Song of Sixpence, A Gaping, Wide-Mouthed, Waddling Frog, The Old Courtier, The Multiplication Table in Verse, The Three Bears” Picure Book: containing The Three Bears, The Adventures of Puffy, Cinderella, Valentine and Orson, & Chattering Jack’s Picture Book, containing Chattering Jack, Our Jessie Was Lost, Grammar in Rhyme, Annie and Jack in London, together 4 vols., all pub. Routledge, [1871 & 1876], thirty-two full-page col. illustrations to each vol., printed by Edmund Evans, all signed by the artist Walter Crane to front endpaper, orig. uniform red-brown boards, decorated in silver-white, rubbed and some wear to corners and edges (The Three Bears” Picture Book more heavily worn with loss to spine, and title mostly torn away and missing), small 4to. Provenance: By descent from the estate of the artist. (4)
Crane (Walter). Slate and Pencilvania: Being the Adventures of Dick on a Desert Island, & Pothooks and Perseverance: or the ABC-Serpent, both pub. Marcus Ward & Co., 1885-86, colour illustrations to each throughout, both orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and some marks, corners a little bumped, square 4to, together with The Golden Primer, by Professor J.M.D. Meiklejohn & Walter Crane, pub. William Blackwood & Sons, [1885], two parts in one, colour plts., pictorial endpapers (signed by the artist Walter Crane to front pastedown), orig. pictorial cloth, rubbed and some soiling, 8vo, plus Pan-Pipes, A Book of Old Songs, newly arranged and with accompaniments by Theo Marzials, 2nd ed., pub. Routledge, c. 1883, colour illustrations throughout, printed by Edmund Evans, signed by the artist Walter Crane to verso of decorated leaf before title, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards with bevelled edges, heavily rubbed and marked, oblong folio, and other Walter Crane titles, various, including a 1910 reprint of The Golden Primer etc.. Provenance: By descent from the estate of the artist. (15)
Crane (Walter). Picture Book Series, Large Series, 8 vols., re-issue, pub. John Lane, c.1890s, including Aladdin (2 copies), King Lucie-Boys Party, The Forty Thieves, An Alphabet of Old Friends, The Three Bears etc., full-page col. illusts., orig. pictorial wrappers, some slight wear mostly to spines, slim 4to, together with six other similar story books, including “The Fairy Ship, Sixpenny Toy Book” signed to front wrapper by Walter Crane and “The Peacock at Home” with numerous ink annotations and corrections in Walter Crane’s hand (14)
Crane (Walter). Walter Crane’s Toy Books, New Series, 13 vols., Sixpence edition, George Routledge, c.1890s, includes The Absurd A.B.C., The Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty etc., full-page col. illusts., orig. pictorial col. wrappers, some worn and marked, slim 4to, together with four Walter Crane Shilling Series Toy Books, plus two others similar (19)
Crane (Walter, illust.). Flora’s Feast a Masque of Flowers, Penned & Pictured by Walter Crane, 1889, pictorial col. title and thirty-nine col. plts. with text, orig. printed boards with blue cloth spine strip, slightly frayed at head & foot, board corners slightly rubbed, 4to, together with Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden: a Posy from the Plays, 1906, forty col. plts. with text (inc. pictorial col. title), orig. pictorial boards with cloth spine strip, boards slightly rubbed to extrems., 4to, with Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood: by Henry Gilbert, 1912, col. frontis. and fifteen plts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. cloth, lower board marked and lower joint slightly cracked at head, 8vo, plus Houshold Histories, from the Collection of the Bros: Grimm: Translated from the German by Lucy Crane; and Done into Pictures by Walter Crane, 1882, b & w frontis. and pict. title, ten b & w plts. and illusts. to text, orig. dec. cloth, 8vo (4)
Essex House Press. William Wordsworth’s Ode on the Intimations of Immortality, pub. Campden, Gloucestershire, 1903, hand-col. frontis. by Walter Crane, penned and gilt initial letters, orig. vellum, spotted, gilt lettered spine and upper margin of lower cover sl. darkened, upper cover with blind-stamped rose and lettering, slim 8vo. Limited edition, 108/150 copies, printed on vellum. Tomkinson, p.74. (1)
ARTISTS: Selection of A.Ls.S., signed clipped pieces (2), by various Victorian painters, artists and sculptors, including Alfred Gilbert, Denis Dighton, Frederick Leighton (unusual A.Q.S., in German, from a work by Goethe), Frederick Goodall, Edward William Cooke, John Collier, Frederick Shields, Thomas Woolner (to Ford Madox Brown), Frank Stone, Edward Poynter, Thomas Barker, Walter Crane, Bruce Bairnsfather etc. Some of the letters have interesting content relating to art. Generally VG, 16
Morris (William).- Crane (Walter) Hammersmith Branch membership card 4pp. with red-printed design by Walter Crane on first p. c.1880 § Morris (William) The God of the Poor original wrappers splitting at spine otherwise very good the Office of “Justice” 1868 § Marx (Karl) Wage-Labour and Capital translated by Joynes original wrappers some marking and chipping preserved in modern buckram chemise 1885 § Morris (William) Monopoly or How Labour is Robbed ink name on title preserved in modern buckram chemise Hammersmith Socialist Society 1893 § Municipal School of Art (The). Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Work of William Morris plates tissue-guards original printed wrappers worn at edges and corners with slight browning Manchester 1908 § William Morris Society. The Work of William Morris one of 2000 copies this inscribed to William Morris Society co-founder and Honorary Treasurer Freeman Bass illustrations original cloth-backed boards [1965]; and a small quantity of others relating to William Morris including auction catalogues pamphlets related 20th century correspondence and various periodical publications by the William Morris Society v.s.(sm.qty)
WALTER CRANE: THE BABY’S BOUQUET, [1878], orig decor cl bkd bds, worn and rubbed + CLIFTON BINGHAM: THE ANIMALS REBELLION, ill C H Thompson, E Nister, circa 1896, 8 col’d plts, orig cl bkd pict bds slightly worn + GEO E HOBBS: THE ADVENTURES OF THE VEGEMEN AND THE BROWNIES, [1898], orig card wraps worn and soiled, inner jnts crudely reinforced + BERTHA UPTON: THE GOLLIWOGG’S CIRCUS, ill Florence K Upton, [1903], lacks ttl pge and other defects, orig cl bkd pict bds worn and soiled + ENID BLYTON: THE SECOND HOLIDAY BOOK, circa 1947, orig cl bkd bds gt slightly worn + VERNON STOKES AND CYNTHIA HARNETT: DUCKS AND DRAKES, 1945, orig cl worn + L LESLIE BROOKE: JOHNNY CROW’S GARDEN A PICTURE BOOK, [nd], orig cl bkd bds worn and soiled, inner jnts split, contents loose + RODERICK MAUDE-ROXBY: BULGY IN WOMBOLIA, [nd], sigd, orig cl bkd pict bds (8)
* Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). Autograph letter signed `Arthur Rackham’, 6 Primrose Hill Studios, NW1, 10th November 1883, to Miss Pearce `It would be very good of you if you could come to me. Anytime, morning or afternoon (til 4.30). Saturday tomorrow - I hope I haven’t replied too late’, one page on Arts Club letterhead, later unrelated ink notes in an unidentified hand to verso, together with Crane (Walter, 1845-1915), Autograph letter signed `Walter Crane’, 13 Holland Street, Kensington, 4th February 1909, to Mrs Georgia Pearce, apologising for the delay in replying to her letter and regretting that he will not be able to attend the Clarion Muscial Festival `But I beg to offer the enclosed for a half-guinea prize’ (not present), a little marginal soiling, one page with integral blank, both 8vo. Georgia Pearce edited `The Clarion Song Book’, first published in 1906.. (2)
Greenaway (Kate). Book of Games, with Twenty-four Full-page Plates, Engraved and Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans, 1st ed., Routledge, [1889], full-page col. illusts., half-title, yellow endpapers and edges, orig. pictorial blue cloth gilt, spine extrems. sl. rubbed, covers with one or two minor marks, 4to, together with Milne (A.A), Songs from ÒNow We Are SixÓ, Music by H. Fraser-Simon, Decorations by E.H. Shepard, 2nd ed., 1928, musical notation throughout, with numerous vigns., occn. finger-soiling, orig. cloth-backed boards with printed paper label mounted on upper cover, a few minor markings, corners showing, 4to, plus other children’s books similar, incl. Caldecott, Florence Upton, Walter Crane, Cicely Mary Barker, etc. (2 cartons)
The Fox and the Pelican pub sign, from the village of Grayshott, Surrey, by Walter Crane, painted one side with a scroll reading `The Fox and the Pelican` with acorns and oak leaves on a red background, the reverse depicting a pelican feeding its young in a nest and a fox below, the frame edge painted with black and white chevrons, signed indistinctly with artist`s monogram within a square, 69cm wide, 6.5cm deep, 79cm high. The Fox and the Pelican Inn was built and opened in September 1899 under the ownership of the Grayshott and District Refreshment Association. It was run on the lines of a temperance house, although alcohol was available. The name had been suggested by the chairman of the association, Sir Frederick Pollock. He had links with Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and the house pub was within the diocese of Winchester, whose 16th century Bishop Fox was a founder of the college. `Fox` was therefore taken from the Bishop`s name and `Pelican` from the Bishop`s coat of arms, which is also the crest of Corpus Christi College. Through personal contacts, the sign was designed and painted by Walter Crane. The existence of this sign has been a mystery for over 95 years, as records exist of it being taken down to be repainted and restored in 1914, and replaced with a copy. There is evidence that one side has been repainted over the original scheme, but the other side has been left with its original paintwork.
Hood (Tom) The Legend of Croquemitaine illustrations by Gustave Doré lower hinge splitting [1871] § Burnett (Frances Hodgson) Giovanni & the Other frontispiece New York 1892 § Deland (Margaret) The Old Garden illustrations by Walter Crane 1893 § Andersen (Hans Christian) The Sand-Hills of Jutland 1860 § Macdonald (George) At the Back of the North Wind illustrations 1900 occasional foxing original pictorial cloth gilt edges rubbed and a little frayed some soiling; and 14 others nineteenth century children`s and illustrated 8vo & 4to(19)
[Roscoe (Thomas)] Italian Tales 16 engraved plates by George Cruikshank lacks advertisement leaf at rear some foxing bookplate on front paste-down later half calf spine gilt in compartments rubbed 1824 § Le Sage (A. R.) Asmodeus engraved frontispiece and illustrations by T. Johannot some foxing contemporary half morocco spine gilt rubbed 1841 § Wise (J. R.) The New Forest engraved frontispiece and illustrations by Walter Crane some spotting hinges weak original pictorial cloth gilt 1867 § Dubarry (Armand) Les Tueurs de Serpents engraved plates and illustrations occasional foxing original cloth gilt Paris n.d.; and 7 others Victorian Illustrated 4to & 8vo(11)
MARY J. NEWILL, `THE HOUSE OF HOLINESS` AND `THE WANDERING WOOD`, EMBROIDERED PANELS, each worked in coloured silks and applied fabric panels on an unbleached linen ground, one inscribed `Una and The Red Cross Knight` and `The House of Holiness; the other panel inscribed `The Wandering Wood`, each framed and glazed, lot also includes The Studio Yearbook 1899-1900 (3), 178cm x 91cm, Literature: The Studio Yearbook 1899-1900, pages 186-188 and illustrated page190, Exhibited: Exposition Universelle et Internationale`, Paris 1901. Note: According to the The Studio magazine this pair of embroidered panels constitutes the most elaborate portions of a series for the decoration of a dining room. The panels represent scenes from Spencer`s `Faerie Queen` and were a technical departure for Newill who wished to `emulate the effect of Japanese prints` and `turning her hand to applique`. The fact that she was satisfied with the results of this `experiment` is certain as the panels were exhibited at the `Exposition Universelle et Internationale` in Paris in 1901 as part of a display by the Bromsgrove Guild. Newill was born in 1860 and studied at the Birmingham School of Art, becoming an illustrator, stained glass designer and embroiderer, exhibiting most notably at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. She subsequently taught needlework at the School from 1892 until 1919, apart from a brief period at the turn of the century when she went to Florence to study tempera painting, just after the article mentioned above appeared The Studio. By 1906 Newill had her own studio in Great Western Buildings, Livery Street, Birmingham. She was a member of the Birmingham Group, the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and the Bromsgrove Guild. A series of embroidered panels for reredos designed by her were exhibited at the fifth exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in 1896. She sometimes collaborated with the Bromsgrove Guild members Miss Talbot, Miss Bloxeidge, Miss Deakin and Miss Holdern, in executing large embroidered panels and a portion of bed hangings designed by May Morris, and worked by her and Newill is illustrated in `The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art` 1917 (p.107). .For her illustrations, she worked either in wash, or in a technique designed to simulate woodcuts and her work is often likened to that of Edward Burne Jones. Her embroidery work however, although having elements that link it to her illustration work, tends to have reference points outside the genre of illustration. Walter Crane admired particularly her ornamental rendering of landscape, and discussed it in his writings on the decorative use of ornament.
Bindings. EARLE (C W) More Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, second impression, 2 volumes, London: Smith, Elder & Co 1898-9, 8vo, full green morocco by Birdsall, Northampton (spines faded); The Clouds of Aristophanes, Oxford: Francis Macpherson 1852, 4to, calf gilt prize binding; CRANE (Walter and Lucy) Ousehold Stories, London: Macmillan & Co 1899, 8vo, morocco (discoloured); and others (9)
* Artists. A group of thirty autographed postcards, early 1900s, including cards autographed by Louis Wain (chromo. of four cats with pre-printed caption `On reading your’ completed in manuscript `letter, I am delighted [smudged] to send you my autograph, Louis Wain’), John Tenniel, John Hassall, Tom Browne (caricature of a man titled ÒDutchÓ), Harry Furniss (with caricature titled `Ye Bishop’s Gait’), Walter Crane, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Bernard Partridge, Marcus Stone, Frederick Goodall, plus some writers and some unidentified, the writers including Marie Corelli, George Grossmith and George R. Sims, some minor marks and one unidentified autograph slightly damaged (30)
Dulac (Edmund, illust.). Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, pub. Benn, 1927, 12 coloured plates, endpapers lightly browned, original cloth, edges slightly rubbed, 4to, together with Faust, by Goethe, Translated by Abraham Hayward, pub. Hutchinson, [1908], 30 coloured plates by Willy Pogany, captioned tissue guards, t.e.g., original cloth gilt, spine slightly faded, large 8vo, plus The Decameron, 2 vols., Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940, illustrations by Fritz Kredel, t.e.g., original calf-backed decorative boards, slipcase (one split), 4to, 23/530, with others including some inscribed books by Cecil Day Lewis, including The Whispering Roots to Richard Church (with a letter thanking Church for a review), Walter Crane’s Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New, 1896 and William Beckford’s Vathek, c. 1926 (18)
Hornby Trains: four coaches, sixteen freight stock, No. 1 Footbridge in original box, Signal Cabin, HRC certificate 20 March 1952 to Wells Cathedral School Branch No. 536 in frame; wooden signals two water towers and water crane; Bassett-Lowke - four buffers and two points in boxes, P-G; Signal Cabin and No. 2 Double Arm Signal, in original boxes; an 0-6-0 mechanism; a modern bogie; Ace Trains rear light assembly, in original box; modern Tucher + Walter live-steam 35cm Steamboat `Hamburg
Greenaway (Kate, illust.). Marigold Garden, [1885], col. illusts. to text throughout, orig. cloth-backed pict. boards, some rubbing to extrems., 4to, together with Crane (Walter, illust.), Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden: a Posy from the Plays, 1906, col. illusts. throughout, orig. cloth backed pict boards, slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Brock (Chas. E., illust.), The Diverting History of John Gilpin, by William Cowper, 1898, num. b&w plts. and illusts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. cloth, spine dulled, some rubbing, small 4to, plus fifteen other childrens books, incl. The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, by Hilaire Belloc, [1897]; Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes, New ed., by Harry Graham, [1909]; The Horkey, by Robert Bloomfield, 1882, etc. (18)
* Gill (Eric, 1882-1940). Autograph letter signed `Eric Gill`, Ditchling, Sussex, 5th February 1914, to Frank Rutter, `I am honoured by your invitation to send my big statue of the Blessed Virgin to your forthcoming exhibition, but I have decided not to exhibit it further at present. Very many thanks all the same`, one page on waxed paper letterhead with perforated margin, 8vo, together with other 19th & 20th c. mostly art and literature autograph interest including Vyvyan Holland, Richard Church, David Lowe, Michael Sadleir, Richard Le Gallienne, Warwick Deeping, Frank Brangwyn, Hugh Casson, Walter Crane, Frederick Goodall, Clara Montalba, Arthur Hopkins, Henry Marks, William Simpson, etc., the majority one or two pages, 8vo, and a few larger (approx. 60)
A rare Martin Brothers stoneware vase, c. 1875, of elongated cylindrical form, boldly incised with a crane under a fruiting branch, a mountain peak at the rear, with a plated mount, mouth restored, incised RW Martin Southall by Edwin Martin and WFM, London, by Walter Frazer Martin, 22cm. It is extremely rare to find a piece of Martinware decorated and signed by Walter, who was the thrower, chemist and kiln firing overseer.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred: Idylls of the King, n.d.fol. tipped-in cold plts by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, publisher`s qtr.cl over blue paper-covered boards; The Book of Old English Songs & Ballads, n.d. tipped-in cold plts by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, 4to, dec.cl; Parry, Judge: Don Quixote of the Mancha, 1900, illust. by Walter Crane, 8vo. dec.cl and Andersen, Hans: Hans Andersen`s Fairy Tales, 1913, tipped-in cold plts by W. Heath Robinson, ec.cl.gt. (4)
10 Corgi Passage of Time, Heavy Haulage etc including Passage of Time: Leyland Octopus Platform Lorry with vats load Walter Southworth, ERF V8 Wheel Platform Lorry with generator load Holden Rossendale, AEC Mk V Mammoth tipper with coal load Anderson; Guinness: AEC Ergomatic Tanker; Heavy Haulage: AEC Ergomatic artic low loader with Scammell Highwayman crane load Chris Miller, Scammell Highwayman Ballast and Low Loader Hallett Silbermann; Atkinson 8 Wheel Rigid with Trailer and Load Tennant. Boxed, minor wear to some, contents as new.
An important large Pilkingtons Royal Lancastrian lustre charger designed by Walter Crane and painted by William Mycock, decorated with a central figure of a jousting knight on horseback, the rim decorated with a dragon and inscribed "Chevalier Sans Peur Et Sans Reproche", in blue red and silver/golden lustre, diameter 48.5cm, artists marks, impressed factory marks and no.2477 (Illustrated). A near identical example of this charger can be seen on the front cover of "Pilkingtons Royal Lancastrian Pottery & Tiles" by AJ Cross, Richard Dennis Publications 1980.
Crane (Walter).- Marquis of Carabas` Picture Book containing Puss in Boots" Old Mother Hubbard My Mother The Forty Thieves four separately published books in one vol. each with one double-page and six full-page illustrations incorporating text original pictorial cloth gilt lower cover sightly discoloured 4to Routledge [c.1875]. ***The titles first appeared in Routledge`s New Sixpenny Toy Book series number 103 104 108 and 109 " published 1873-1874.
Crane" Walter A Masque of Days from the Last Essa first edition double-page colour plates with integrated text in black and red original cloth-backed colour boards dust-jacket d/j torn and rubbed with some loss [Gumuchian 1931 not in Osborne] 1901 § Foster (M.) Clever Funny Folk colour frontispiece other illustrations in black and white original glazed pictorial boards hinges cracked presentation bookplate to front paste-down Ernest Nister [c.1880] § Gorey (Edward) Fletcher and Zenobia Save the Circus first edition illustrations by Victoria Chess original boards dust-jacket New York 1971 " v.s.
Watts (G.F. painter and sculptor 1p. 8vo L[ittle] H[olland] H[ouse] Monday evening n.d. arranging an appointment "I have been so unwell that I could not make an appointment & so did not write sooner. I am still very seedy..."; and 3 others letters including Walter Crane and S.A. Hart folds slightly browned.
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