Live auction - Lot 161
Flora's feast. A masque of flowers. Penned and pictured by Walter Crane.
London, Paris, Melbourne, Cassell & Company, 1895
Hammer price: €
80
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
4to (some spotting on title and at sides).
Publisher's boards, decorative endpapers, mod. slipcase (some pin-holes on 1st board, very sl. faded, corners and sides sl. rubbed).
40 coloured lithogr. ill. by Walter Crane (1st issue in 1889). Publisher's catalogue at the end.
Ref. Baker, Bibliography of British books illustr., C.292.
Joined: 1. Deland, M. - The old garden and other verses. Decorated by Walter Crane. London, Osgood McIlvaine & Co, 1893. 8vo (sm. tear in blank margin of title). Publ. decor. cloth (somewhat rubbed at extremities and spine), decorated endpapers. Unopened good copy. Printed at the Riverside Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts) on one side of the paper only. Almost every page with a coloured lithograph. - 2. Crane, W. - King Luckie boy's party. London, J. Lane; Chicago, Stone & Kimball, printed by Edmund Evans, (1895). 4to. Sewn (covers sl. soiled and def.). - 3. Id. - This little pig went to market. Ibid., (1895). 4to. Sewn (covers sl. soiled and def.). (4 vol.)