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Walter Crane: an Arts & Crafts coloured book plate from Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden, depicting personifications of Savorie and Majoram

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.

A collection of eight Mintons wall tiles, comprising three Nursery Rhyme tiles designed by Walter Crane, and five similar, each 15.5cm square (a/f)

FOUR WEDGWOOD OUTLINES OF GRANDEUR PLATES WITH DESIGNS BY LAURENCE WHISTLER PRINTED IN BLACK WITHIN GILDING. Dia. 26.5cms. TOGETHER WITH A PLATE DECORATED WITH A WALTER CRANE LADY WITH A WATERING CAN. Dia. 23.5cms.

Rothenstein (William, 1872-1945). English Portraits. A Series of Lithographed Drawings, published by Grant Richards, 1898, 24 lithographic portraits including Hardy, Gissing, Henry James, Walter Crane, Ellen Terry, and others, additional photogravure portrait of George Bernard Shaw from a photograph by Dorothy Hickling loosely inserted, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original buckram gilt, rubbed, folioQty: (1)NOTESOne of 750 copies, this copy with a signed pencil dedication to George Bernard Shaw: 'To G.B.S. Greetings! Will Rothenstein 98'.Amendment: We now believe that the pencil inscription to G.B. Shaw from the author is not in the hand of William Rothenstein, but an anonymous contemporary or near-contemporary owner, who has also inscribed the front endpaper.

Crane (Walter, illustrator). Spenser's Faerie Queene, A Poem in Six Books; with the Fragment Mutabilitie, edited by Thomas J. Wise, 6 volumes, 1st edition, London: George Allen, 1897, decorative titles, numerous woodcuts, some full-page, original pink part wrappers bound-in, occasional spotting and toning but generally bright and clean, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary dark green half morocco, gilt decorated spines with red onlay decorative motif, joints and extremities slightly rubbed, 4toQty: (6)NOTESLimited edition, one of 1000 copies.

[John Piper] Stained Glass History, Technology and Practice by E. Liddall Arrmitage with 117 plates 1960 first edition Ex. Libris John & Myfanwy Piper with decorated bookplate, Embroidery or the Craft of the Needle by Townsend with Preface by Walter Crane 1907, Nature and Ornament II by Lewis F. Day 1909 first edition (3)

An early Pilkington's Lancastrian Maiden vase designed by Walter Crane, shape no.2089, tall, shouldered form, modelled in low relief with three dancing classical maidens in a formal garden setting, glazed matt olive over orange impressed early P mark, 33.5cm. high Provenance The Bill Coles collection.

Walter Crane (1845-1915) Summer, pen and ink on paper, framed 55 x 30.5cm. Provenance: Campbell Wilson, Private collection.

CRANE (Walter) illustrator: Story of Greece by Mary Macgregor, 4to, 19 col. plates, pictorial cloth, L., n.d.; Souvenir de Paris, foldout extending multi-image, cloth covers, [Leipzig, Glaiser, ca. 1870]; & misc. lit. (9).

Crane, Walter - Queen Summer; or, The Journey of Lilly and the Rose, large qto, quarter vellum (loss of 8cms at spine foot), with 40 colour plates, Cassell & Co, London 1891 and Dodgson, Campbell - The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, large qto, quarter vellum, with 96 plates, The Studio, London 1922 (2)

Crane, Walter - A Flower Wedding, Described by Two Wallflowers, 1st edition, qto, original, cloth backed boards, London 1905; Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden, 1st edition, original cloth backed boards, London 1906 and De Monvel, M. - Boutet-Vieilles Chansons Pour Les Petits Enfants ... Paris, n.d. (3)

A late 19th Century Sowerby Queens Ivory Cream and Sugar set after designs by Walter Crane with a border of Peacocks to a garden setting, together with a similar daisy pattern cream jug and a small black glass John Derbyshire recumbent hound. (4)

[CHILDRENS]. ILLUSTRATED Crane, Walter. Queen Summer: or The Tourney of the Lily & the Rose, Cassell & Co., London, 1891, cloth-backed pictorial boards, illustrations by the author throughout, eight-page publisher's catalogue, quarto; and Crane, Walter. Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers, Cassell, London, 1889, cloth-backed pictorial boards, illustrations by the author throughout, small quarto (both with rubbed edges), (2).

Collins (Wilkie). Works, Library Edition/New Editions, 29 volumes, London: Chatto & Windus, 1875-1901, illustrations by Walter Crane and others, a few minor spots, bookplates of Andrew Carnegie, top edge gilt, contemporary red half morocco by Henry Sotheran & Co., spines with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, 8voQty: (29)NOTESA handsome set of Wilkie Collins' works, formerly in the library of Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919).

A rare Arts and Crafts Walter Crane damask linen set,with a fruiting tree and swan design, all embroidered in the border with 'Designed by Walter Crane, London' and also monogrammed on one corner with the initials 'B.A.M.', comprising:a tablecloth, 335cm long approxmately, andfour place mats, 66cm square (5)Condition report: Table cloth has a small section that has been repaired.

Set of six volumes ' Spenser's Faerie Queene ', illustrated by Walter Crane, published George Allen, London 1897, limited to 1000 copies on hand made paper, green leather and linen bound

Walter Crane. line and form published by George Bell and Sons London. 1900.original blue gilt cloth binding, loose on spine, but complete. 4to. Large amount of line drawings enclosed within, executed by Walter Crane, and others. Slight foxing to a few pages, a good reference book for students and artists alike..

Crane (Walter) Walter Crane's Picture Book, one of 750 copies printed in colours by Edmund Evans, illustrations, some full-page, decorations, light water-staining to upper outer corner of last few leaves, endpapers spotted and stained, original parchment-backed cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, lightly faded and stained, 4to, 1900.

Kelly, Arthur: The Rosebud and Other Tales: Pictured by Walter Crane. T. Fisher, London. 1909. Together with a music box photo album

Collection of children's books, including Straparola - The Nights, illustrated by E. R. Hughes, 1894, numbered from limited edition of 210, works by Caldecott, Andrew Lang, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, John Hassall and others.

PICTURES AND PRINTS ETC, to include Parisian scene oil on canvas, by T.Cavon?, Ivan Lackovic prints, Walter Crane prints, other assorted prints, a wooden carved relief panel of a Buddha face, gilt framed bevel edged mirror, oval mirror etc, largest approximate size 74cm x 106cm (box and eight loose)

WILDE, Oscar, The Happy Prince and other Tales, Walter Crane, Illus. Jacomb & Hood. London 1888. red title with vignette on ivory bds, foxed and splits. 8vo.

EDMUND SPENSER: SPENSER'S FAERIE QUEENE, ed Thomas J Wise, ill Walter Crane, London, George Allen, 1894-97 (1000), 1st edition, 19 original parts complete, 4to, original printed wraps, ex-part 3 lacks most of top wrap, part 8 lacks top wrap and lower wrap with part loss, part 1 top wrap nibbled, most parts with wraps detached (19)

FANNIE ATTWILL FOSTER "COUSIN FANNIE" (TRANS): EVERY BEGINNING IS EASY FOR CHILDREN WHO LOVE STUDY, Boston, Mass, Phillips Sampson & Co, 1856, 1st edition, 7 coloured lithoplates, 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards worn and soiled, not on COPAC + WALTER CRANE (ILL): A MASQUE OF DAYS FROM THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA, London, Paris, New York and Melbourne, Cassell & Co, 1901, 1st edition, original pictorial boards worn + ELEANOR SMITH: SONG DEVICES AND JINGLES, ill Florence Young, S B Pearse and Kathleen Nixon, London, Waverley Book Co, ND, 7 (of 8) coloured plates, 4to, original cloth backed boards, pictorial paper label worn (3)

Two antique books- The Baby's Bouquet and The Baby's Opera by Walter Crane.

A collection of Children's and Illustrated titles including Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane, Arthur Ransome etc.

Five Victorian Maw & Co. nursery tiles by Walter Crane 1874

Books - Two Antique Books, Line & Form by Walter Crane & The Styles of Ornament by Speltz & Spiers. Line & Form published by George Bell & Sons of London, Circa 1900, 191 illustrations. Spine loose. The Styles of Ornament published by Bruno Hessling of New York circa 1910. Hard backed with 3500 examples from prehistoric times, to the middle of the XIX century, with 400 full page illustrations.

Various editions of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes including:-"Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales", ills by Sir John Gilbert, John Tenniel, Harrison Weir, Walter Crane, W McConnell, J B Zwecker and others, George Routledge & Sons nd, numerous ills throughout text, front hinge cracked, red pictorial cloth and gilt titles"Mother Goose Rhymes" with colour pictures by S B Pearce and line drawings by Winifred M Ackroyd, J Coker & Co Ltd, reprinted October 1932, colour frontis, vignette on tp, black and white ills throughout, colour plates, pastedown pictorial boards, pencil inscription on ffep, dj repaired and cut at bottom end of spineRobinson, Charles (ills) "Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, Proverbs and Rhyme Games", forward by Lawrence Alma Tadema, The Children's Press, colour frontis, colour plates, black and white ills throughout, pictorial boards, very clean and bright, glassine cover, with its original dj - chipped and worn but not price clipped,in a slip coverFisher, Arthur O. and Hart, Frank"Master Toby's Hunt", Country Life 1934, black and white ills, vignette on tp, frontis, yellow cloth, black pictorial image and black titles, dj not price clipped within a glassine coverWillebeek Le Mair (ills) "Little Songs of Long Ago ...", the original tunes harmonised by Alfred Moffitt, publ Augener Ltd, London 1912, colour plates, oval pictorial pastedown with gilt titles, small oblong folio "Old Dutch Nursery Rhymes", publ Augener Ltd 1917, colour plates, music scores, blue cloth, pictorial pastedown to front board, gilt titles, small oblong folio (6) 

Pictures and Prints - After Walter Crane, a set of six Aesthetic Movement prints

WALTER CRANE. "Walter Crane's Picture Books." Vols 1, 2, & 3; plus "Walter Crane's Picture Books Large Series." Vol I. all with col plts printed by Edmund Evans comp, orig individual wps bound in orig pict cl, 4to, 1895-1900, vg condition.

* Crane (Walter, 1845-1915). The Dance of the Nymphs & The Reaper/Ferdinand Most Sure, The Goddess on Whom These Airs Attend (from The Tempest by William Shakespeare), two woodcuts on paper, image size 19.5 x 14cm (7.75 x 5.5ins), both framed and glazed (Qty: 2)

In the manner of William De Morgan, an early 20th century Arts and Crafts style red lustre pottery tile with hand painted floral and foliate decoration, raised mark for J C Edwards and number '167' to base, 15.3cm x 15.3cm, with a J C Edwards tile decorated with a raised green glazed floral pattern in the manner of C F A Voysey, raised maker's mark to base, 15cm x 15cm, a framed Minton tile, in the manner of Walter Crane, with an Art Deco tiled tray, hand painted by Packard & Ord across three Pilkington tiles, set in an oak frame with two lug handles, an oak framed hand painted tile by Ord & Robb, four further hand painted tiles, and a transfer printed teapot stand (10) For condition information please view this lot on our website HERE

Letters.- Baring-Gould (Sabine, Church of England clergyman, author, and folksong collector, 1834-1924) Autograph Postcard to J.E. King & a cut signature of Baring-Gould, 1 side, 90 x 115mm., Lew Trenchard, Devon, 28th March 1912, "Welcome to use the two hymns 'On the Resur[rection] Morn[ing]', & 'Onward Xtian Soldiers' if you will send me 2/- towards the restoration of the parish church", tipped-in on paper; and c. 125 others letters, including: letters by F.T. Palgrave, Sir Henry Newbolt, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm, Joseph Wolff, J. Hanson Walker, Charles Dilke, Alfred Cooper Fryer, CM Yonge, Sir Francis Younghusband, cut signatures of George III, Prince Adolphus Frederick Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Wellington, Lily Langtry, Rudyard Kipling, free frank signed Wellington etc., v.s., v.d. (c. 125 pieces).

Children's Books 9 Books, comprising Crane, Walter Queen Summer, or The Journey of the Lily & the Rose. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., [1891]. First edition, original printed paper-covered boards; Park, Carton Moore An Alphabet of Animals. London: Blackie and Son Ltd., 1899. 4to, original boards, neatly rebacked; Lauda, Richard Radosti Mal?ch. Prague: Nakladem Ceske Graficke, [1903?] Original red cloth gilt, some soiling to covers; Upton, Florence K. The Golliwogg at the Sea-Side. London: Longmans, Green & Co., [1898]. Oblong 4to, original boards, some rubbing and soiling; [Idem] The Golliwogg's "Auto-go-Cart". London: Longmans, Green & Co., [1901]. Oblong 4to, original boards, some rubbing and soiling, neat repair to front free-endpaper, and a few other repairs throughout affecting images in places; Aldin, Cecil The White Puppy Book. London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]. Original boards; [Idem] The White Kitten Book. London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]. Original boards; Stevenson, Robert Louis The Stevenson Song-Book. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Original printed boards, a little soiling; Detmold, E.J. - Florence E. Dugdale The Book of Baby Pets. Oxford: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, [1938]. Original blue cloth, a little foxing (9)

*WALTER CRANE (1845-1915) autograph letter signed to an unknown recipient, 2 pages dated June 3 1886 "...can you trace or draw at all? I should be glad to get as many details bearing on the life of the Greeks in the Homeric and Aeschylean ages as possible whether on architecture, dress and ornament...I have written to Miss Rosetti and in the meantime accept my sympathy..."

THE BABY'S BOUQUET A FRESH BUNCH OF OLD RHYMES & TUNES BY WALTER CRANE

NO RESERVE Crane (Walter).- Collection of books from his family library.- Crane (Walter) The Baby's Bouquet, first edition, presentation copy from Crane to his two children, the inscription reading 'Beatrice & Lionel, with Father's Love, Nov 7 1875', colour full-page illustrations and decorations by Walter Crane, lacking front free endpaper, occasional staining, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, short split to lower joint, corners worn, rubbed, George Routledge and Sons, 1875 § Crane (Walter) The Baby's Opera, first edition, inscribed by Crane, 'Copy of first edition, 10, 000, 1877, Walter Crane', colour full-page illustrations and decorations by Walter Crane, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, corners worn, rubbed, 1877; and c.40 others, mostly works by Crane or with contributions by him but also including others like Randolph Caldecott (a presentation copy from him to Mrs. Walter Crane), all from the Crane family library, the majority with inscriptions by Crane himself or family members,v.s. (c.42)

A PAINTED WOOD THREE FOLD SCREEN, C1900  each side inset with illustrations from the  book 'Flora's Feast a Masque of Flowers' by Walter Crane, 1889 and c, 196cm h, 183cm l Paint which is of later date discoloured and chipped in places; central leaf with minor shrinkage cracks

Iris Murdoch, various titles, reprints; The Unsophisticated Arts, Barbara Jones; Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde 1092, A Flower Wedding, Walter Crane and Anthony Powell novels

One volume ' The Pied Piper of Hamelin ', illustrated by Kate Greenaway, one volume ' The Old Nursery Rhymes ' illustrated by Lawson Wood and one volume ' The Decorative Illustration of Books ' by Walter Crane, London, G. Bell and Sons Ltd, 1911

Autographs Walter Crane 1845-1915 British Author and Illustrator. Six hand written letters signed Walter Crane 1901-10 period. Plus a Cecil Aldin letter signed.

Circle of Walter Crane (1845 - 1915), Two Boys by the River, possibly India or Ceylon, watercolour, glazed and framed, with Fine Arts Society label to reverse, Walter Crane published 'India Impressions', notes of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) during a winter tour 1906-07, 5cm x 52.5cm x 35.5cm, ex frame

After Walter Crane - five book illustrations from the Queen of Summer or The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose, approx 17 w x 20 h cms, all five framed and glazed.

Walter Crane (1845 - 1914), rare section of 19th century wallpaper, 27" x 22", unframed Several fold marks and small torn section on left-hand edge margin

Boaden (James) . The Life of Mrs. Jordan;..., 2 volumes, 1831, printed by Edward Bull, black & white engraved frontispiece to volume 1, folding facsimile letter to front of volume 2, some minor spotting & toning, uniform contemporary boards, some loss to spine labels, lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with: Crane (Walter) , Ideals In Art:..., 1905, numerous black & white illustrations, bookplate to front pastedown, some minor spotting, original gilt decorated blue cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, and Watkins-Pitchford (Denys 'B B') , The Countryman's Bedside Book, 4th impression, 1947, The Idle Countryman, reprinted, 1948, Confessions of a Carp Fisher, 1st edition, 1950, numerous black & white illustrations by the author, some light spotting & toning, all original cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other late 19th century & modern illustrated literature, art & miscellaneous reference, including The Life of William Morris, 2 volumes, by J. W. Mackail, 1899, Animals in Black and White, Volume One The Larger Beasts, by Eric Fitch Daglish, reprinted, 1929, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (Qty: 6 shelves)

CRANE (Walter) A Masque of Days, Cassell & Company, 1901, full velum painted in classical style with cherubs, masks, hippocampus, floral swags, leaf scrolls and landscape vignettes and The Baby's Opera (2).

'A Masque of Days', Walter Crane, published by Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1901, illustrated boards, 4to.

One volume ' Fables ' by John Gay 1814, two volumes ' The Babies Bouquet ' and ' The Babies Opera ', illustrated by Walter Crane and other miscellaneous childrens books etc

NO RESERVE Strang (William) The Street Sellers, etching with drypoint on laid paper, signed in pencil, inscribed 'first state' and dated '24th May 1900', platemark 280 x 302 mm. (11 x 12 in), sheet 340 x 360 mm. (13 1/2 x 14 1/4 in), some toning to sheet, handling creases, unframed, 1900; together with a miscellaneous group of prints and posters, including William Nicholson's 'Krishna Mulvaney', 12 socialist prints of designs by Walter Crane, and others, all unframed, late 19th and early 20th century (25)

Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly, volumes I-XIII [all published], April 1894-April 1897, numerous black and white plates with tissue guards by Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Crane, Laurence Housman et al, variable spotting, volumes I & V with ink signature to front pastedown, original yellow pictorial cloth, somewhat rubbed and soiled, with some marks, spines variously browned, a few ends frayed, volume XII with short puncture at head of spine, small 4to (Qty: 13)

Crane, Walter, A Flower Wedding. Cassell & Company, 1905. Org. cloth-backed decorative boards, floral endpapers; decorative coloured title, 40 coloured plates with two boxes of Terry Pratchett booksBoard edges rubbed and scuffed, ffep detached from title but still attached to book, edges worn, loss to upper corner of 10 from opening pages, likewise slight loss to upper corners of 13+14 and marginal tear to 15 affecting image slightly otherwise clean and bright internally.

[Chromos] Routledge's Coloured Picture Book (c.1870) containing The Fancy Dress Ball, Annie And Jack In London, The Enraged Miller & Old King Cole with thirty-two pages of coloured illustrations (including some by Walter Crane) in cloth with colour pictorial onlay within a gilt & black surround, L'Education Du Coeur by Mme Manceau illustrated with colour plates in gilt cloth (2)   

William Morris, five pamphlets for the Socialist League, True & False Society 1888, Monopoly 1891, Useful Work Versus Useless Toil, 1891, chants for Socialists 1885, Monopoly (Or How Labour is Robbed) 1893, all with illustrations by Walter Crane

* Autographs. A large assorted collection of 1000+ mostly clipped autographs, 19 & 20th century, including 350+ loosely contained in 14 small albums, signatures include Arthur Symons, W.E. Gladstone, Herbert Spencer, W.E. Johns, Quentin Hogg, George Solti, Robert Helpmann, John Gielgud, Havelock Ellis, Thomas Hawkins, Admiral Duckworth, Charles Lyell, Robert Murchison, William Black, John Leech, Lord Palmerston, Caroline Norton, Geroge Gilbert Scott, John Everett Millais (pencil), Mary Howitt, George Cruikshank, George Grossmith, Willa Cather, Robert Peel, Lord Liverpool, Lord Russell, John Tyndall, James Nasmyth, The Duke of Wellington, James Montgomery, Edward Pusey, James Ballantine, Walter Crane, Jan Kubelik, H. Rider Haggard, Charles Bell, Adolphus Frederick, Margaret of Teck, Princess Alice, Princess Adelaide, William Frederick, William Wyon, W.P. Frith, Harry Furniss, Henry Moore, etc., mostly cut from letters but including some free fronts and covers (Qty: a carton)

Clarke (Harry, illustrator). Faust by Goethe, from the German by John Anster, London: George G. Harrap, 1925, 21 plates, 8 in colour, letterpress vignettes, scattered spotting, contemporary ink inscription at head of limitation leaf, pictorial endpapers, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, original quarter vellum, spine slightly dust-soiled, paper-covered boards somewhat spotted and toned, corners showing, 4to, together with: Konody ( P. G .). The Art of Walter Crane, 1st edition, London: George Bell, 1902, 16 chromolithographed plates after book illustrations, 7 (of 8) photogravure plates (lacking frontispiece), 73 further plates (a few in colour), tipped-in facsimile bifolium on handmade paper reproducing two leaves from Kelmscott Press's The Story of the Glittering Plain, and numerous illustrations and decorations to text, half-title present, printed throughout in red and black, patterned endpapers (spotted), top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, original gilt decorated two-tone cloth, damp-stained, two small holes in lower joint, folio (Qty: 2)NOTESClarke: limited edition, English issue, number 31 of 1,000 signed by the artist (a further 1000 copies printed for the American market). Konody: limited edition, number 53 of 100 copies on Arnold's Handmade Paper.

NO RESERVE [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, some spotting, mostly to tissue guards, original pictorial yellow cloth, a little rubbed, some spines a little browned, one faded, small 4to, 1894-97.

Walter Crane for Wedgwood, an Aesthetic Movement plate, printed and painted with a Classical scene of boy playing the pipes in an orange grove with maiden, impressed marks, 26.5cm diameter

A Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Lustre Pottery Vase, of ovoid form, designed by Walter Crane and Gordon Forsyth, signed in monogram, with scrolling flowers and foliage against a bronzed ground, impressed and printed marks, 27cm high.