Art and the Formation of Taste, Six Lectures by Lucy Crane, published by Macmillan, London 1882. A 1st edition. With illustrations drawn by Thomas and Walter Crane. In full red leather binding, size 18.5 by 12 cm. 293 pages. All edges marbled and with marbled endpapers. Gold-stamped decoration to front board and spine. The front board also has a gold-tooled banner with a Latin motto (Beati Mundo Corde, or Blessed are the Pure in Heart, a line from Dante with a reference to the fable of the wolf and the crane. There is a plain white plate pasted over the inside of the front endpaper which may have been used to cover a bookplate and the book would appear to be a prize binding. Good to VG condition with minor rubbing to head and foot of spine.