A bibliography of first editions of books illustrated by Walter Crane. With a preface by Heywood Sumner and a frontispiece after G.F. Watts.

Name: A bibliography of first editions of books illustrated by Walter Crane. With a preface by Heywood Sumner and a frontispiece after G.F. Watts.
Author: (WALTER CRANE) Massé, Gertrude C.E.

Book Description

An excellent copy of the one-time very rare first edition. Printed on laid paper. Index of titles, index of authors. Besterman 1516 Sold

Dealer Notes

Printed at the Westminster Press. “In commercial printing only Bernard Newdigate at the Arden Press, Gerard Meynell at the Westminster Press and Harold Curwen at the Curwen Press were offering ‘style’, with the revived Caslon Old Face predominant.”--Francis Meynell, My lives. (1971)

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Author (WALTER CRANE) Massé, Gertrude C.E.

Date 1923

Binding Cloth backed boards, gilt spine, ornate endpapers, orig. printed dust wrapper

Publisher London: Chelsea Publishing Co.

Condition Very good, partly unopened. Dust wrapper mended at head of spine, covered by plastic protection sheet.

Pages 8vo, pp. 60, (2)

Price: £45.00

Offered by Christian F Verbeke Rare Books

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