Windmill, New York, 1981. facsimile edition, Osborne Collectionn, boxed - fine. Nanny's Web The Decorative Illustration of Books This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. Brand new Book. George Routledge and Sons, London Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creator of his generation. More information about this seller Victorian Illustrated Books. Haslam, Malcolm. | Contact this seller Minimal wear. Printed Boards/Cloth Spine. The Baby's Opera: GIRLS AND BOYS THE MVLBERRY BVSH ORANGES & LEMONS ST PAVL'S STEEPLE MY LADY'S GARDEN NATURAL HISTORY LAVENDER'S BLUE I SAW THREE SHIPS DING DONG BELL PUSS AT COURT THREE BLIND MICE DICKORY DOCK Ye FROG'S WOOING Ye FROG & Ye CROW MRS. The artwork and the text of 'Baby's Opera: Old Rhymes and New Dresses' are presented side-by-side, so that the two may be better appreciated. Floraâs Feast. More information about this seller As Crane explains, a âgood design [should not be] dependent upon expensive materials for its effectâ (qtd. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. 11. Condition: Very Good. A Windward reprint of the original 1889 edition. Condition: POOR. Condition: Good. Published by | Contact this seller Published by May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. More information about this seller | Contact this seller century edition published by George Routledge C 1880. (Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom), About this Item: Cassell, London, 1995. Crane also played a significant role in the Arts and Crafts movement, producing many illustrations, paintings, children's books, and more. Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Seller Inventory # AAV9781848302525. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. More information about this seller Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. | Contact this seller 27. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. 3. Walter Crane (illustrator). The Decorative Illustration of Books by Walter Crane. Condition: New. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011. No Jacket. Walter Crane (illustrator). (1980), ISBN 10: 0831736658ISBN 13: 9780831736651, From: Walter Crane (illustrator). New Book. Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Established seller since 2000. Hardcover. Books may contain a remainder mark on an outside edge but this should be noted in the listing comments. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. The binding is tight and square, with no reading crease in the spine or covers. (Caulfield South, VIC, Australia), About this Item: A Windward Reprint, 1980. Size: 24mo. Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden: a Posy from the Plays. 1st Edition. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. Half-title, extra end-paper with cat and fiddle vignette, frontispiece illustration of Old King Cole, highly decorative title page. Due to weight the UK post and packing is £5.50. More information about this seller Good with no dust jacket; Edges bumped, worn and frayed. 19. Seller Inventory # IQ-9781792925733. (1981), From: Baby's Own Aesop - Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme with Portable Morals - Illustrated by Walter Crane (Hardback). May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. (London, United Kingdom), About this Item: Read Books, United States, 2017. The Art Nouveau Book in Britain. Condition: Fair. The overall impression is one of restless movement: embodying Mario Prazâs famous comment on the âhorror vacuiâ of Victorian design, the aesthetic effect derives from working the eye as it scans calculated oppositions of motifs. Condition: New. Condition: As New. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Crane's work is characteristically colourful and delightfully detailed, taking its inspiration from the Arts and Crafts movement (of which he was a member), as well as the iconic child-in-the-garden motif. Unimpressed by what he saw as the lack of harmony in books as famous as the âMoxon Tennysonâ (1857), which he described as disorganized and discordant (Decorative Illustration, 150), Crane approached all of his commissions as opportunities to create an architectural interaction and variation of forms, a spatial progress, as it were, through the portal of the binding to the rooms within. What makes them distinctive, of course, is that they are mass-produced bindings in paper and cloth rather than luxurious cuts in leather; offered as populist works for a large audience rather than books for an elite, they democratize the principles of Arts and Crafts aesthetics. As Heywood Sumner explains, his book-art is purely a matter of calculation: âHe sought a design; an ordered spacing; a pattern of graphic forms that would adorn the story to be illustrated. It contains the music for many English nursery songs, and is one of Crane's best known 'toy books'. Language: English. Wadard Books PBFA ), covers are rather worn but still bright, soundly bound, no markings. Glossy Pictorial Hardcover. George Routledge and Sons n.d. About this Item: Grand Central Publishing. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. No dust jacket, faint rubbing to covers; A facsimile of the 1889 edition, with color illustrations from the original edition by Walter Crane in the style of the Art Nouveau movement. Illustrated by Walter Crane (illustrator). London: Macmillan, 1901. 14. Established seller since 2000. | Contact this seller Hardback. The Music By the Earliest Masters. The Renaissance. Illustrated by Walter Crane (illustrator). According to Massé, Crane illustrated 176 books, of which 70 (or so) were issued in bindings he designed. 1877Not dated, c.1879 Gift inscription to front end-paper is dated Xmas 1879. Some minor wear to the spine. Walter Crane wasn't just a great artist, he was also a political activist who sincerely believed art should be part of everybody's life and passionately supported his ideas with paintings, illustrations and essays. Alongside such names as Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, he was also one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery theme. Brand new Book. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. Reproduction of two of Crane's most popular works, with enchanting illustrations. Condition: New. Crane invokes the architectural metaphor in writing of unities of books, but his analogy for ornament is musical, noting how âornament in its developed, or sophisticated and conscious, stage, seems to me to have a close analogy to music ⦠in which the sensuous delight in rhythm and melody ⦠constitute the principal charmsâ (Ideals in Art, 102). The artwork and the text of 'Baby's Own Aesop' are presented side-by-side, so that the two may be better appreciated. Brand new Book. | Contact this seller About this Item: Paperback. (1980), From: 1. Condition: Good. Love2Love Books Hardcover. New Book. alter Crane (1845–1915), whom John Russell Taylor accurately described as ‘too big and unmanageable … to be fitted neatly into any single pigeon-hole’ (64), created paintings in oil and watercolour, book illustration, ceramic tiles, designs for wallpaper and political pamphlets, tapestries, images for book-marks, advertisements, and other ephemera.