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The Art of Walter Crane.
London: George Bell & Sons, 1902. [Printed at the Chiswick Press]. Folio, original decorative blue cloth, t.e.g., decorative endpapers. Photogravure frontis., [xiv], [148] pp., 24 chromolithographic plates, and over 100 additional plates and illustrations. An exceptionally handsome monograph on the work of British illustrator Walter Crane, and still the most authoritative work on the artist. Richly illustrated with chromolithographs, two tipped-in facsimile leaves from the Kelmscott Press edition of The Story of the Glittering Plain, and examples of Crane’s paintings, book illustrations, wallpaper designs, and a variety of decorative work. A characteristically fine production of the Chiswick Press. CONDITION: Very good, moderately worn, lightly soiled; a tight, attractive copy.
Item #3173
Price: $575.00