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[Beardsley (Aubrey) and others.] The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, 13 vol. [all published], plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley, Laurence Housman, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm and others, spotting, original pictorial yellow cloth, corners bumped, spines rather darkened, some surface soiling to covers, extremities rubbed, small 4to, 1894-97.⁂ With literary contributions by Henry James, Edmund Gosse, Kenneth Grahame, William Butler Yeats, HG Wells, and others.

Sutherland, Millicent and Walter Crane, 1904, Wayfarer's Love; Contributions from Living Poets, Westminster: Archibald Constable, printed by the Duchess of Sutherland's Cripples' Guild, Hanley, signed by the editor and numbered 11 of 100, vellum bound, gilt embossed with a design by Walter Crane

The Baby's Opera, Walter Crane together with Caldicott's sketch-book

Juvenile Literature. A large collection of early 20th-century juvenile literature & annuals, including works by Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane, Charles Kingsley, Walter de la Mare, mostly original cloth/boards, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (6 shelves )

Autograph album.- Album of letters, free franks, cut signatures, letters and pen and ink sketches by Howard Payn, including: Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Robert Inglis, Garnett Wolseley, William Cobbett, Walter Crane, Canon Duckworth (Alice's Wonderland Duck), Samuel Meyrick, Birket Foster, John Ruskin, Wilkie Collins, Harrison Ainsworth, Canon Liddon (friend of Lewis Carroll) etc.; free franks, including: Lord Amherst, Lord Melbourne etc.; cut signatures, including: Gladstone, C.G. Gordon (of Khartoum), Robert Browning, Lord Leighton, Henry Irving (signed photograph), Squire Bancroft, Bulwer-Lytton, Anthony Trollope, Sarah Bernhardt (signed photograph), Lord Cardigan etc., together c. 180 items laid down, small quantity of cut signatures loosely inserted, 13 pen and ink sketched by Payn, including: "Boat Race of the Future"; "Amateur Theatricals. An Othello 'Break down'" etc., inner hinge broken, original half morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed, g.e., contents v.s., oblong 4to, v.d., [c. 1850-90].⁂ (1). William Cobbett ALs 1828. "Mr. Dean, I have made a bargain with Mr Akerman, to give up to him my business and house at Kent Street.(2). John Ruskin. ALs. "Mr Ruskin is entirely unable to read, Letters of this kind - he returns these testimonials, or they would be lost in the heaps of his papers."(3). "Tenniel ALs. "Dear Sir, If you will have the kindness to send on Wednesday - about mid-day, I think I may promise that the drawings shall be ready. I have been tormented by painters, paperhangers, & all sorts of annoyances, to the great hindrance of my work, else, the drawings would have been finished last week... John Tenniel."

Walter Crane (1845-1915) 'The Auxiliary Postman', a Valentine's Day scene, 1874 Block printed in colours on paper Artist's mark within the plate 32cm x 25cm (frame size 47cm x 37cm). Footnote A similar example is held at the British Museum

Design for the cover of 'Art and Society after Walter Crane by Jan Veth, design is by Dijsselhof, Gerrit Willem, year of manufacture 1894, 28x39 cm

Walter Crane R.W.S. (English, 1845-1915) 'Yew Tree Farm, Brundish Farm, Suffolk (England, 1905)'watercolour heightened with white on boardsigned with monogram and dated Jan 1 1905, inscribed on the reverse with the title26 x 37.5cm***CONDITION REPORT***Good original condition, colours remain strong, but possibly a hint of fading particularly across the sky, one or two tiny dirt specks, underglass in probably the original gilt oak frame, comes with the original backing board which has been retained showing the title. Provenance: retailed by Peter Nahum at the Leicester Galleries via Liberty's. See Museum of New Zealand Collection for a related work, 'Interior View of Yew Tree Farm' by Walter Crane.PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail. 

LIMOGES DESSERT PLATES each hand painted with a flower fairy, in the manner of Walter Crane, some initialled JH to reverse, 22.5cm diameter Condition Report:Available upon request

Childrens books including A Cat Alphabet by Louis Wain; Beauty and the Beast with col litho plates; English Strewwelpeter; Kate Greenway ill books; Arabian Nights with col litho plates; Walter Crane "Babies" books and others

10 Corgi Classics. 2x Passage Of Time series- Leyland Octopus LAD Platform Lorry With Steel Bar Load & Clock, T. Brady. Plus a Leyland Octopus Platform Lorry With Vats & Clock, Walter Southworth. 3x SHELL-BP series- ERF KV Elliptical Tanker, With Petrol Pump. Leyland Elliptical Tanker, With Petrol Pump. Plus a Bedford TK Elliptical Tanker, With Petrol Pump. Plus a Guinness series Leyland Beaver Platform Lorry With Trailer with tanks. A Leyland Beaver Box Trailer, Michelin Tyres. Bedford TK Low Loader, British Railways. Scammell Highwayman Low Loader, Pickfords. Plus a Scammell Highwayman and Crane, Southdown. All boxed, contents VGC-Mint. £70-90

A.C. Loffelt/ E.A. von Saher. Haarlem, Museum van Kunstnijverheid, 1903. VII p., 6 plates. Orig. ill. wr. Catalogue for the 1st exhibition of Walter Crane in the Netherlands. Some foxing/ browning, edges sl. worn.

Penned and pictured by Walter Crane. London, Cassell & Company, 1895. Orig. col. lithogr. pict. clothbacked boards. 40 col. lithogr. p. w. ills. by Crane, 8 advert. p. Title-p. browned, lower hinge splitting in advert. section, binding sl. worn. (2) Een incarnatie van de sneeuw. Een Hindoesche liefdes-geschiedenis. Utrecht, W. de Haan, n.d. (1919). XII,83 p. 4to. Orig. gilt dec. cl., t.e.g. Deluxe ed. printed in 200 numb. copies signed by Rie Cramer, 6 tipped-in col. plates, ills. and book dec. by Cramer. Free endpapers browned, spine sl. stained, sm. other outer defects. Publ. in the series Het karnen van de tijd, ed. H. Borel. (3) East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old tales from the North. London, Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. (ca. 1915). 4to. Orig. pict. cl. 24 tipped-in col. plates and ills. by Kay Nielsen. Foxed, spine sunned and covers stained. -and 7 others, incl. A.A. Milne, Winnie-de-Poeh (Dutch ed. by N. van Hichtum, 1929), 3 titles w. covers des. by Fré Cohen and a very rare Swedish picture book, John, den lille sjöfararen frän Danzig (1848). (total 10)

WALTER CRANE:2 Titles: THE BASES OF DESIGN, London, George Bell, 1898 first edition, original decorative cloth gilt, top edges gilt, LINE AND FORM, London, George Bell, 1900 first edition, original decorative cloth gilt, top edges gilt (2)

Spielmann (Mabel H.). Littledom Castle and Other Tales, 1st edition, London: George Routledge, 1903, colour frontispiece, monochrome illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Kate Greenaway, Hugh Thomson, Harry Furniss, Jessie M. King and others, a few light spots, endpapers a little toned, contemporary owner signature, all edges gilt, original purple cloth gilt, spine a little faded, edges lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Jonathan Swift, London: J.M. Dent, 1909, 12 colour plates, partial offsetting to endpapers, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt, spine faded, 8vo, plus Howey (M. Oldfield). The Horse in Magic and Myth, 1st edition, London: William Rider & Son, 1923, colour frontispiece, monochrome illustrations, presentation inscription, partial offsetting to endpapers, original cloth gilt, dust jacket, small chips at spine ends, a little toned, 4to, with others illustrated including The Water Babies, illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell, circa 1915, The Girl's Own Toy-Maker and Book of Recreation, by E, Landells, 4th edition, 1863, Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood, illustrated by Walter Crane, 1912 (rebacked with spine relaid), Tales from the Arabian Nights, illustrated by A.E. Jackson, 1920, and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, with colour frontispiece by Nancy Barnhart, 1933 (in dust jacket) QTY: (18)

[Beardsley, Aubrey and others]"The Yellow Book: an illustrated quarterly", 11 vols of 13, missing nos. being vol 8 and vol 9, with plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley, Laurence Hausman, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm and others, tissue guards, foxing, original yellow pictorial cloth, with some soiling to backstrips, vol 11 very stained, front boards fairly clean, all corners bumped and top and tail of backstrips slightly pulled (11) 

ROBINSON, Charles ... (Illustrator) The Story of the Weathercock : Told by Evelyn Sharp. 16 colour plates and others. Original green gilt cloth torn at the head of the spine. 4to. Blackie & Son. n.d.(1907). * scarce Charles Robinson illustrated book. With - Crane, Walter, Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden, well illustrated. 4to. cloth backed pictorial boards. No date, (1906). Cassell. With one other on illumination.(3)

Children's/Illustrated. Crane, Walter - Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd. 1889. Original printed boards. 40pp, fully illustrated in colour. Ex-school library, with address stamp and small inscription to end paper. With; Greenaway, Kate - Under the Window. No date; Tolkien, J. R. R. - Mr Bliss. (1982, 1st); and 2 others. (5)

3 Masons Art Nouveau platters titled Swans by Walter Crane. 31.5cm each (D) 2 boxed/1 boxed.

A Royal Worcester circular bowl with central medallion of a galleon, after Walter Crane, within a diaper border, 21cm diameter CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection

Mrs. Molesworth (Mary Louisa), 9 Volumes of Childrens' Books by Mrs Molesworth illustrated by Walter Crane including The Girls & I, 1892, The Oriel Window, 1896, Four Winds Farm, 1886, The Rectory Children, 1889, Rosy, 1882, A Christmas Posy, 1888, The Cuckoo Clock, 1905, The Children of the Castle, 1890, Mary, 1893, The Tapestry Room, 1879 CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection

A VICTORIAN SILVER VESTA CASE IN THE STYLE OF KATE GREENAWAY by Sampson Mordan II, London 1882. 4cm high, 0.43 troy ouncesKate (or Catherine) Greenaway (1846-1901) was a Victorian children’s book illustrator and writer. The daughter of a successful draftsman and wood engraver, she studied graphic design and art between 1858 and 1869. Her first book, “Under the Window”, was an instant best-seller, brought her immediate fame and was followed by numerous highly successful publications. At the same time as her writing career she excelled as a watercolourist, working with illustrators Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott. Her distinctive old-fashioned style depicted children and young ladies dressed in early 19th Century costumes in quaint settings, a style of grace and charm that transformed the children’s book market, her talent described by Walter Crane as “captivating the public in a remarkable way”.Good condition overall, wear and tear commensurate with age

A VICTORIAN ENGRAVED SILVER SCENT FLASK, IN THE MANNER OF KATE GREENAWAY by Sampson Mordan II, London 1884. 14cm long, 1.1 troy ouncesKate (or Catherine) Greenaway (1846-1901) was a Victorian children’s book illustrator and writer. The daughter of a successful draftsman and wood engraver, she studied graphic design and art between 1858 and 1869. Her first book, “Under the Window”, was an instant best-seller, brought her immediate fame and was followed by numerous highly successful publications. At the same time as her writing career she excelled as a watercolourist, working with illustrators Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott. Her distinctive old-fashioned style depicted children and young ladies dressed in early 19th Century costumes in quaint settings, a style of grace and charm that transformed the children’s book market, her talent described by Walter Crane as “captivating the public in a remarkable way”.Good overall, wear and tear commensurate with age, clear marks, there are a couple of splits to rim under the cover. The lid with cork liner.

A set of four Arts and Crafts nursery rhyme tiles,early 20th century, by Minton and Boch Frères, after designs by Walter Crane from 'The Baby's Bouquet', comprising: 'Buy a Broom','The North Wind & The Robin','The Old Man in Leather', and'The Four Presents,each 15cm square,together with a copy of 'The Baby's Bouquet',arranged and decorated by Walter Crane (5)Condition ReportAll with some minor chips and wear. WIth craquelure to the glaze.

AUTOGRAPHS. An autograph letter signed (a.l.s.) by John Ruskin on Brantwood, Coniston, headed paper dated 1 Nov '81, regarding 'a long chapter in Viola', 4pp but only written on the first and third pages, 11.5cm x 17.5cm, together with a collection of other autographed material and clipped signatures, including an 1878 passport, an a.l.s. from Walter Crane and another from H.H. Asquith.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

Four editions of Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Including the Harrison edition (London ? 1784) containing 2 plates engraved by William Blake and 2 editions with illustrations by Walter Crane and W H Robinson.

Kipling (Rudyard) They, first separate edition, frontispiece and plates, tissue-guards, previous owner's ink inscription, faint spotting to endpapers, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1905 § Flaubert (Gustave) Three Tales, frontispiece, plates, captioned tissue-guards, scattered spotting, original cloth-backed boards, bumping and rubbing to corners and joints, 1923 § Benson (E. F.) The Freaks of Mayfair, first edition, frontispiece and illustrations by George Plank, cracked hinges, original cloth, bumping to corners and extremities, 1916 § Crane (Walter) An Artist's Reminiscences, first American edition, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, bookplate, scattered spotting, original decorative cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, New York, 1907; and others, cloth bound, 8vo (c.100)

[Beardsley (Aubrey) and others.] The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, 13 vol. [all published], plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley, Laurence Housman, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm and others, tissue guards, some leaves unopened, spotting, original pictorial yellow cloth, covers generally bright, light toning to spines, minor bumping to ends, small 4to, 1894-97.⁂ Included in the lot is a catalogue of the exhibition "The Artists of The Yellow Book & the Circle of Oscar Wilde" by Clarendon & Parkin Galleries, 1983.

Art reference.- Konody (P. G.) The Art of Walter Crane, half-title, frontispiece, plates, some colour, scattered spotting, cracked hinge, original pictorial cloth, gilt, bumping to corners and extremities, 1902 § Goldscheider (Ludwig) Rodin: Sculptures, full-page illustrations, original cloth, light spotting, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, slight creasing to edges, 1970 § Alexandre (Noël) The Unknown Modigliani, illustrations, many full-page, original cloth, dust-jacket, fractional creasing to edges, New York, 1993; and others art reference, v.s. (c.100)

CHILDREN'S AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS TO INCLUDE "AESOP'S FABLES" illustrated by Charles Folkard, published by Adam & Charles Black 1912, "The Rectory Children" by Mrs Molesworth, illustrated by Walter Crane, published by Macmillan & Co. 1889 A/F, "Now We Are Six" by A. A. Milne 1927 first edition A/F together with Boys Own Book, "John Leech's Pictures of Life & Character" etc.

WALTER CRANE: LINE & FORM, London, George Bell & Sons, 1900, first edition, original decorative cloth gilt

§ THOMAS JAMES CLIFF (1873-1958) FOUR PANELS, CIRCA 1900 bronzed plaster, variously inscribed VER; AESTAS; AUCTUMNUS; HEMS, each signed T J CLIFF, framedDimensions:each panel 15cm squareNote: Note: Thomas James Cliff (1873-1958) studied at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art. His sculptures were exhibited at the Royal Academy on a number of occasions. Heatherley's is the oldest independent art school in London. The school is among the few art colleges in the United Kingdom focusing entirely on portraiture, figurative painting and sculpture. Its former alumni include Burne Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Millais, Lord Leighton, Edward Poynter, Walter Crane, William Russell Flint, and Kate Greenaway

MANNER OF WALTER CRANE EMBROIDERED PANEL, CIRCA 1910 coloured silks and wool on a lace ground, later framed and mountedDimensions:19.5cm x 119cm

WALTER CRANE (1845-1915) (ATTRIBUTED DESIGNER) FOR THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF NEEDLEWORK EMBROIDERED PANEL CIRCA 1890 coloured silks and gold thread with applied beads, later frameDimensions:35.5cm x 34cmNote: Note: The original drawing for this design is in the collection of The Royal School of Needlework, RSN Archive D1/29See also V&A collection accession no. T.774 to D-1972 where a screen of 1876 demonstrated similar design characteristics.Thanks to Dr Lynn Hulse for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, 'Morte D'Arthur' Illuminated by Alberto Sangorski, Chatto & Windus 1912 (grubby). Kate Greenaway 'Marigold Garden', Warne & Co. Walter Crane 'Baby's Opera', E.V Lucas 'A Book of Verses'. (4).

[Beardsley (Aubrey) and others.] The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, 13 vol. [all published], plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley, Laurence Housman, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm and others, tissue guards, occasional foxing, slight staining to a few leaves in vol.4, a few tissue guards creased, original pictorial yellow cloth, some soiling to spines and a few covers, a few nicks to spine ends and wear to joints, small 4to, 1894-97.⁂ Included in the lot is a catalogue of the exhibition "The Artists of The Yellow Book & the Circle of Oscar Wilde" by Clarendon & Parkin Galleries, 1983.

CHILDREN'S AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS TO INCLUDE "AESOP'S FABLES" illustrated by Charles Folkard, published by Adam & Charles Black 1912, "The Rectory Children" by Mrs Molesworth, illustrated by Walter Crane, published by Macmillan & Co. 1889 A/F, "Now We Are Six" by A. A. Milne 1927 first edition A/F together with Boys Own Book, "John Leech's Pictures of Life & Character" etc.

SPENSER (EDMUND)Faerie Queene, 19 original parts bound in 6 vol., LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, edited by Thomas J. Wise, plates, illustrations and decorations by Walter Crane, light spotting mostly on endpapers, publisher's white cloth, gilt-blocked illustration on upper covers with lettering in red, gilt lettering on spines, original red pictorial wrappers bound in, t.e.g., others untrimmed, spines toned, covers soiled and bumped, 4to, George Allen, 1897-1896 (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Maw & Co pottery tile teapot stand design IGNIS (Fire) from a series of the four elements designed by Walter Crane, a set of Edwardian fire place tiles and matching edging tiles, and a Delft blue and white pottery tile in a wooden wine boxLocation:

Children's Books - Crane (Walter), Baby's Own Aesop, Routledge; Sylva (Carmen), A Real Queen's Fairy Book; an early 20th century set of playing cards, happy Families, John Jaques & Son, Ltd, London (3)

[Beardsley (Aubrey) & others]. The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, 13 vol. [all published], plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley, Laurence Housman, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm and others, tissue-guards, occasional minor foxing, light browning to endpapers, original pictorial yellow cloth blocked in black, spines faded or lightly browned with a few small chips to ends, some light rubbing and soiling marks, still overall a very good and bright set, small 4to, 1894-97.⁂ With literary contributions by Henry James, Edmund Gosse, Kenneth Grahame, William Butler Yeats, HG Wells, and others.

Walter Crane (1845-1915) for Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Pottery Company'Night and Morning' wall plaque in green brown glaze, circa 1905Glazed earthenwareVerso with impressed factory stamp32.5cm diameter.FootnoteRoseberys would like to thank Angela and Barry Corbett of the Pilkington's Lancastrian Pottery Society for their assistance in the cataloguing of the present lot.

A Frederick Warne & Co Ltd London and New York The Baby's Opera, Illustrated by Edmund Evans and Walter Crane, slight staining to pages, in original card cover and cloth spine, heavy creasing to cover and a group of three vintage Christmas baubles including a bell and two pierced glass baubles, (bell 8cm x 11.5cm) (a lot)

Vintage children's books to include AAA Milne Wind in the Willows, Queen Summer by Walter Crane, etc (17 volumes approx)

Box of books to include: 'African Jungle Life' by Major Dugmore 1928, 'Once a Week' by A.A Milne 1914 first edition, published by Methuen & Co, 'Zoo Quest for a dragon' David Attenborough, 'Good Farm workmanship', 'Baby's Opera' by Walter Crane, 'Roadmender' Michael Fairless, Nurses Dictionary, 'Wakeful Comes to Stay' by Robert Hartman 1947 first edition, various W.R.U handbooks, 'Island of Skomer' by John Buxton & R.M Lockley first edition 1950, 'Rugby Recollections', 'Pleasant Valley' by Louis Bromfield first edition 1946, 'Onions in the Stew' Betty Macdonald, 1955 first edition, Hammond, Hammond & Co, with dust jacket etc. (B.P. 21% + VAT)

Hawthorne Nathaniel, 'A Wonder book for Girls and Boys, with 60 designs Walter Crane', first edition, printed by London Osgood Mcilvaine, 1892. (B.P. 21% + VAT)

Seven assorted mainly 19th Century children's & illustrated books, plate books etc, including Walter Crane 'The Baby's Opera', two copies; E.L. Shute: 'Over the Hills', illustrated Jessie Watkins, L, Frederick Warne, [1888], 47pp, colour illustrated leaves throughout, 4to, original pictorial boards, later rebacked in cloth, bookplate of the novelist Richard Adams (1920-2016) to front pastedown; William Strang & JB Clark (illustrated): 'The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen', L, Lawrence & Bullen, 1895, black & white plates and ills. throughout, original striking pictorial cloth; Laura Valentine: 'Aunt Louisa's Keepsake', L, Frederick Warne, c.1870, 22 coloured plates, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, later rebacked; plus 2 others (7)

Walter Crane (illustrated): 'Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden. A Posy from the Plays', London, Cassell, 1906, 40 pages of colour illustrations as called for, 4to, original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards

Prince Frederick Duleep Singh (1868-1926): 'An account of Blo' Norton Hall : otherwise the manor house of Brome Hall in Blo' Norton. Communicated by Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, M.V.O., F.S.A., V.P.', [Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society], Vol. xviii., pages 211-260, [1910], 24 plates, folding genealogical table, rebound half cloth gilt; together with 'Cox's County Who's Who Series. Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire. 1912', entry for Prince Frederick Duleep Singh p77/78, original cloth gilt, plus a copy of Walter Crane 'The Baby's Opera', c.1880, from Elveden Hall Library, Suffolk, home of the Maharajah Duleep Singh 1849-1894, with the pencil inscription "B.C. & S." to half title, the initials of the daughters of the Maharajah Duleep Singh & Bamba Müller, Bamba, Catherine & Sophia Duleep Singh (3)

LOUEY CHISHOLM: THE ENCHANTED LAND ..., ill Katherine Cameron, London & Edinburgh, T C & E C Jack, 1906 first edition, 30 coloured plates as called for, original cloth gilt worn, spine faded with part loss of cloth at head, top edges gilt plus ANNA SEWELL: BLACK BEAUTY, ill Cecil Aldin, London Jarrolds [1930], 18 coloured plates as list, 4to original pictorial cloth gilt, spine faded plus SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE: PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS, ill A Rackham, London, Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1910, 24 coloured plates as list, 2 plates loose, original pictorial cloth gilt, plus WALTER CRANE: THE BABY'S BOUQUET, London and New York, Georgia Routledge, circa 1888, second edition revised, oblong original cloth back decorative boards plus ANDREW LANG: 2 titles: THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK, London, Longmans Green, 1893, second edition, original pictorial cloth gilt worn, THE PINK FAIRY BOOK, London, Longmans Green, 1897, first edition, original pictorial cloth gilt worn, spine toned, inner joints weak, plus RUDYARD KIPLING: JUST SO STORIES, London, McMillan, 1902, first edition, contemporary inscription on front free end paper, original pictorial cloth worn, inner joints weak (7)

CRANE WALTER.  Pan Pipes, A Book of Old Songs. Col. illus. & decs. throughout. Oblong folio. Orig. pict. brds. 1883; also 5 others, Thomas & Walter Crane & R. Caldecott.  (6).

* Prints & Engravings. Children's Illustrations, a mixed collection of 144 prints, 19th & early 20th century, prints and engravings, including illustrations from: The Prize, Lyrics Pathetic and Humorous from A to Z by Edmund Dulac, George Cruikshank Fairy Library - Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella and Puss in Boots, and others, artists include: Edmund Dulac, George Cruikshank, Heath Robinson, Margaret Tarrant, Mabel Lucie Atwell, Richard Doyle, Anne Andersen, Walter Crane, etc., various sizes, all mounted, unframedQTY: (144 or a carton)

HERBERT ROSE BARRAUD (1845-1896), Men and Women of the Day, published 1888-1893, bound in six volumes in full leather, with full page carbon prints mounted on board and accompanying biographies, ex libris Eric Quayle, some pencil inscriptions; vol I, 45 carbon prints, vol II, approx 47 carbon prints includes H Rider Haggard, William Powell Frith, Henry Morton Stanley, actors including Charles Wyndham, Julia Neilson, John Hare, Winifred Emery; vol III, approx. 45 prints includes William Holman Hunt, Walter Crane, Annie Besant (photograph present but detached), suffragette Margaret Dilke, actors, singers etc.; vol IV 47 prints includes Cardinal Newman, John Ruskin, Joseph Chamberlain, Ellen Terry, Herbert Spencer, Lady Randolph Churchill, Robert Browning, W G Grace, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Sir Charles Halle, Thomas Hardy; vol V approx 44 prints, including Arthur Conan Doyle, female actors and singers, society beauties; vol VI, 46 prints, including J M Barrie, Jerome K Jerome scientists Reverend William Henry Dallinger, Lord Kelvin etc., photographs typically 24cm x 18.5cm, mounted on card pages 35.5cm x 24.5cm. Provenance: Bonhams 04/04/2005, The Library of the late Eric Quayle (part 2) lot 586; Quayle pencil note in vol I reveals he obtained the 6 vols from the Salvation Army in 1966.

Spenser, (Edmund). Crane, (Walter) (Illustrator). 'The Faerie Queen'. George Allen, London 1894-1896. 4to. (280 x 223mm). Publishers ads at end. Fine black morocco with tooled edge by Stikeman & Co, New York b/p. Fair condition, binding a little loose in places (6)

Children's Illustrated picture booksto include Slate and Pencil Vania decyphered by Walter Crane, 1885, The Baby's Banquet arranged and decorated by Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott's Picture Books: The Farmers Boy, the Diverting History of John Gilpin, The Great Panjandrum Himself, A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go, An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex Mrs Mary Blaize and Ride A-Cock Horse to Banbury, together with The Farmer's Boy, Illustrated by Jack Orr, Farmiloe, Edith., Young George His Life, London, 1902, Red Riding Hood Cottage, London Ernest Nister, Baby's ABC and A was an Archer both mounted on Linen, Frederick Warne, Ewing, Julian Horatia, Baby:Puppy: Kitty etc., (qty)Condition: Varying condition, fair to poor. Viewing recommended in person. A was Archer with losses to covers and failing spine, Baby Puppy Kitty - failing spine. Red Riding Hood Cottage with chip and losses, spine restitched. John Gilpin failing spine.

WALTER CRANE ILLUSTRATIONS 'Cinderella's Picture Book'. Col plates complete, original cloth, some staining, c1899; ARTHUR HUGHES ILLUSTRATIONS. 'Babies' Classics'. Plates complete, original cloth gilt, 1904, vg.

Walter Crane 'Sixpenny' toy book. 'Baby's Own Alphabet,' new series, rubbed pictorial thin card wraps, splitting to spine as aspectected, spotting throughout, scarce, George Routledge & Sons, advertisements to rear wrap, [c.1873]; WARNE's JUVENILE DROLLERIES. 'Lear's Book of Nonsense,' thin pictorial card wraps, repair to spine, illustrated throughout, advertisements to rear wrap, Frederick Warne & Co, London, n.d; Two 'Sixpenny' works by W. Harry Rogers, Sugar-bread' and 'Ice-Peter', repairs to spines, some spotting and nibbles, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, London, 1868; WILHELM BUSCH. Mar und Mortis,' original boards, colour illustrations throughout, Verlag von Barun und Schneider, Munchen, n.d; With an English edition. (6)

Seventeen illustrated children and adolescent works. ARTHUR RACKHAM illustrations. 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens,' a new edition, original cloth, rubbed and bumped, colour plates tipped in, spotting to edge of textblock, Hodder & Stoughton, London, n.d; FLORENCE K. UPTON. Three works, rubbed and bumped with staining; 'Bookano Zoo,' pictorial boards, rubbed and bumped, loose textblock, toning, pop up giraffe, Srand publications, [1943]; KENNETH GRAHAME. 'The Wind in the Willows,' second edition, original clothspotting throughout, Methuen and Co, 1908; WALTER CRANE illustrations. 'The Baby's Opera,' colour illustrations throughout, spotting throughout, George Routledge and Sons, London, n.d; With ten other works including Arthur Rackham, Caldecott, and an Edward Lear. (17)

Thirty-two bibliographic and reference books. Including 'Serial Publication in England befor 1750', 'A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Graves', 'The Lewis Carroll Handbook', 'The Decorative Illustrations of Walter Crane', and 'The House of MacMillan' etc. (32)

John R. Wise The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery. Third edition 1880. With 63 illustrations by Walter Crane, engraved by Linton and two maps. Published by Henry Sotheran and Co. Southampton. Publisher's dark green boards, decorated in blind. Decorated and titled in gilt. A very good copy. 3rd edition 1880. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW. We can ship a parcel up to 20kg which will take approx. 40 books in UK £12, EUROPE £39.99, ROW, £59.99