CRANE, Walter.
A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden: Set Forth in Verses & Coloured Design by Walter Crane.
"In an old world garden dreaming where the flowers had human names, methought in fantastic seeming they disported as squires and dames": Rare first edition of Walter Crane's A Floral Fantasy In An Old English Garden; in the scarce original dust jacket
London: Harper & Brothers, 1899.
$550.00
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Item Number: RRB-95861
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First edition of Crane's elaborately illustrated book of verse. Quarto, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 46 color plates on French fold sheets. Very good in the scarce original dust jacket which is in near fine condition. Rare and desirable.
English artist and book illustrator Walter Crane is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children’s book creators of the early 19th century. Crane's work featured some of the more colorful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children's stories for decades to come.
A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden: Set Forth in Verses & Coloured Design by Walter Crane.
$550.00
Out of Stock