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Click here to subscribeQuality editions of the classics published by the Folio Society, including: Perrault's Fairy Tales, 1998._ Wonder Book for Girls & Boys, Illus. by Walter Crane, 2008._ Vanity Fair, 1996._ The Arabian Nights, 2000._ Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales, 1998._ The Fable's of Aesop, 1998._ Legends of King Arthur, 2000._ Bestiary, 1992._ Condition: books are largely as new, slip-cases may have shelf marks in places (9)
Oscar Wilde; Walter Crane & Jacomb Hood (illustrated): 'The Happy Prince and Other Tales.', London, David Nutt, 1888, 1st edition, one of 1,000 copies published in May of 1888, 3 full page black & white plates by Walter Crane and 12 head and tailpieces by Jacomb Hood complete (Crane plate 'The Happy Prince' bound between title and dedication page and without tissue guard), small 4to, original cream paper covered boards (slightly worn/rubbed), rebacked retaining the lower half of the original backstrip, front cover lettered in red with vignette design in black and publisher's device in red, internally leaves/plates generally clean/VGC. Scarce first edition of this fragile production, Wilde's collection of stories for children established his reputation as an author, with the Athenaeum comparing him to Hans Christian Andersen. In addition to the title story, this collection includes "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," and "The Remarkable Rocket." Wilde commented that he intended these stories "partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the child-like faculties of wonder and joy, and who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness" (Hart-Davis, Letters of Oscar Wilde, 219)
Beardsley (Aubrey) and others. The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, 13 vol., plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley, Laurence Housman, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm and others, tissue-guards, partly unopened, cracked hinges, light toning to endpapers, original pictorial yellow cloth blocked in black, spines slightly faded or browned, slight bumping to corners and extremities, a little rubbed, 8vo, London, Boston and New York, 1894-97
Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Story of the Glittering Plain, one of 250 copies on paper, printed in red and black, 23 wood-engraved illustrations after designs by Walter Crane, ornamental woodcut borders and initials by William Morris, original limp vellum, silk ties (one lacking), [Peterson A221], 4to, Kelmscott Press, 1894.*** "This has the odd distinction of being the only title printed twice... Morris was so eager to get the first edition [i.e. 1891] into print that he would not wait for Crane's illustrations" but later related by Morris's secretary Sydney Cockerell that "Morris was no less dissatisfied than [Philip] Webb with Crane's illustrations to his Glittering Plain & thought this volume his one Kelmscott Press Failure" (Peterson).
CRANE (Walter, illustrator): 'Pan Pipes..a Book of Old Songs, Newly Arranged & with Accompaniments by Theo Marzials...': London, George Routledge, 1883: FIRST EDITION: publishers cloth backed decorative boards, later labelled to spine, oblong 4to: together with a second edition of same in variant binding, plus approx 40 other volumes across one shelf, largely late 19th-early 20thc children's and illustrated books. (One shelf)
Crane, Walter (illus.) 1882 Household Stories from the Collection of the Bros Grimm, translated from the Germany by Lucy Crane and done into Pictures by Walter Crane. Publ. Macmillan & Co. First Crane edition, large paper copy. Publisher's orig. navy cloth binding with gilt borders & titles to spine, a few marks and stains to the boards, head of spine a touch bumped as are extremities, 1943 gift inscrpition in pencil to ffep, frontispiece & spotted tissueguard present (tear to edge), otherwise internally clean & smart. 8vo.
CRANE, W. Aladdin's Picture Book. (N.d., 1880's). W. 24 cold. plates by W. Crane. 4°. Or. pictorial cl. (Skilfully rebacked). -- Id. Walter Crane's Picture Book. Comprising the Baby's Opera, the Baby's Bouquêt and the Baby's own Aesop. 1900. W. cold. ills. by W. Crane, & muical scores. Lge-4°-obl. Or. h. vellum (Rebacked in cloth, sides a bit soiled, corners bumped, upper margin of 2 lvs. rep.). Printed in 500 numb. copies. -- Id. The baby's opera. A book of old rhymes with new dresses. (1877). W. illustr. by W. Crane. Sm-8°. Or. clothbacked illustr. brds. (Corners/edges a bit worn). -- Id. Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers. Lond. (etc.), 1895. W. 40 cold. lithogr. lvs. by the author. Sm-4°. Or. clothbacked cold. lithogr. brds. (Corners bumped, ticket pasted on ti.). -- (4).
Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Sea Maiden vase, by Walter Crane and William Slater Mycock, on a blue ground, impressed mark 1905-1913, cyphers for Walter Crane and William Slater Mycock, no 2472, H25.5cm (restored)Condition Report:The rim restored (see photographs), otherwise very light and minimal surface scratching
DUVOISIN, Roger (illustrator). A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, New York: The Limited Editions Club 1944, limited edition 409/1100 signed by the artist, lithograph illustrations, hand coloured, calf backed imitation cork boards, in original box. 4to; CRANE, Walter (illustrator), The Song of Sixpence Toy Book, London: Routledge nd (c. 1870s), col. plts., original pictorial cloth,worn, small 4to: CHILDREN'S BOOKS. Six vols. bound as one retaining orig. col. printed wraps, including Santa Claus & His Works, New York: McLoughlin Bros nd (other English pubs.); and other childrens (12 incl. pbks)
° ° Rossetti, Christina – Florence Harrison (illustrator) – Poems, 4to, introduction by Alice Meynell, 36 tipped-in colour plates on grey card, captioned tissue-guards, original cream buckram with pre-Raphaelite design to upper cover, t.e.g., London, Blackie & Son, [1910]; Percy B. Shelley – Charles Robinson (illustrator) – The Sensitive Plant, 4to, introduction by Edmund Goose, 18 tipped-in colour plates, num. illustrations, illus. e/papers, tissue-guards, original green pictorial cloth, London & Philadelphia, Heinemann & Lippincott, [1911]; Charles Kingsley – Jessie Willcox Smith (illustrator) – The Water Babies, 4to, 12 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original green pictorial cloth, [London], Hodder & Stoughton for Boots, [1919]; Ida Rentoul Outhwaite – Blossom, A Fairy Story, first edition, 4to, 16 plates, including 8 in colour, original blue cloth, dust-jacket, London, A. & C. Black, 1928; Ida Rentoul and Grenbry Outhwaite, The Little Fairy Sister, reprint, 16 plates, original cloth, London, A. & C. Black, 1929; Annie R. and Ida Rentoul Outwaite, The Little Green Road to Fairyland, reprint, 16 plates, original blue cloth, London, A. & C. Black, 1932; Oliver Herford, A Child’s Primer of Natural History, London, John Lane, 1900; Walter Crane (illustrator) – Theo Marzials – Pan Pipes, A Book of Old Songs, London, F. Warne, [1890]. Together with a further 5 illustrated volumes (13).
WALTER CRANE (1845-1915) FOR MAW & CO., JACKFIELD 'SKOAL' TWIN-HANDLED VASE, CIRCA 1889 lustre-glazed earthenware, bears inscription SKOAL, unmarked 21.5cm high Note: This is one of a series of vases that Crane designed for Maw & Co. around 1889 when they first appear listed in the catalogue of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in London of that year, described along with a series of tiles that Crane also designed for the firm. The vases demonstrate Crane's interest in all historical forms and decoration, especially those of classical antiquity and of the Islamic world, with the current example a celebration of Viking fraternity.
Victorian Children's Books - Harrison Weir, Walter Crane, et al, Mother Goose's Jingles (George Routledge & Sons, London, 1878); Cicely Mary Barker, Flower Fairies of the Summer (Blackie & Son Ltd., London); others, Flower Fairies of the Spring, Flower Fairies of the Autumn; A Little Book of Ryhmes New and Old; The Story of Snips (6)
Bindings. GRIMM (Brothers) Household Stories, Translated by Lucy Crane, illustrated by Walter Crane, London: Macmillan & Co 1882, large 8vo, slight spotting at head of title and frontis, cloth spine strip pasted in at the front, fine full morocco gilt signed ‘C E G’ [Captain C E Gladstone RN, d.1919], to inside front board, silk doublures, top edge gilt, some fading to spine and boards; RUSKIN (John) The Two Paths, being Lectures on Art, 1859, small 8vo, half title and 2 plates, light foxing, full green morocco gilt signed ‘C E G’ [Captain C E Gladstone RN, d.1919], to inside front board, top edge gilt, slight fading to spine lettering; with a slim 8vo vol. in polished red calf by Zaehnsdorf (contents blank leaves); and another binding in morocco gilt, all edges gilt; and 2 others 12mo (6)
Approximately 1500 vintage and modern bookmarks including a series of twenty five by George Studdy, others by Beatrix Potter and Enid Blyton, advertising examples for Edinburgh Book Festival, Northern Assurance, Scottish Widows ‘ Fund with designs by Walter Crane, National Savings, Sunlight Soap, India Tyres, Esso and New Zealand Tour of England 1990 (one of 175), Oriental silk textured cards, celluloid, designs for Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, The Beatles, Marvel, Garfield, Elvis, Avengers, Star Trek, Dr. Who, Tintin etc, housed in nine binders, together with two albums of film and advertising postcards (11)
charcoal on paper mounted, framed and under glass image size 16cm x 24cm, overall size 33cm x 40cm Provenance: the artist's studio sale, Thomson Roddick. Note: Charles Oppenheimer was born in Manchester in 1875. His mother was Scottish and the family owned a mosaic manufacturing business. He studied under Walter Crane at Manchester School of Art and in Italy. Although not a native Scot, (he didn't settle in Scotland until he was in his mid-thirties) he was passionate about his adopted home town of Kirkcudbright and found an endless source of subject matter in the 53 years he lived in the town. Kirkcudbright drew some of Scotland's greatest artists, such as Cadell and Fergusson, and many painters gathered here following the lead of E.A. Hornel. They were primarily attracted to the effect of the light on the hilly ground which produced soft colours and a spectrum of grey. Oppenheimer was a keen fisherman and many of his paintings dealt with the effect of light on water. His views of The Solway Coast and Whitby were used by British Rail for their advertising campaign 'See Britain By Rail'. He retained a love of Italy and produced some excellent canvasses of Venice and Florence. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, where he became a full member in 1934.
Essex House Press.- Ashbee (C.R., editor) [Great Poems of the Language series], 10 vol., limited editions (between 50 and 165 copies), all printed on vellum, hand-coloured frontispieces by Reginald Savage, George Thomson, C.R.Ashbee, Edith Harwood, William Strang and Walter Crane, initials and decorations supplied by hand in colours (some in gold), gilt-stamped red morocco book-label of W.A.Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey, original blind-stamped vellum, spines titled in gilt, uncut, some a little spotted, spines lightly soiled, 8vo, printed at the Essex House Press of Chipping Campden, 1900-04.*** An excellent set of 10 of the volumes from this charming series, lacking only a few titles, comprising: Keats's St. Agnes' Eve, number 27 of 125 copies, 1900; Gray's Elegy, number 30 of 125 copies, 1901; Walt Whitman's Hymn on the Death of President Lincoln, number 73 of 125 copies, 1901; Epithalamion of Spenser, number 5 of 150 copies, 1901; Chaucer's The Flower and the Leaf, number 89 of 165 copies, 1902; Burns' Tam O'Shanter, number 10 of 150 copies, 1902; Milton's Comus, number 51 of 150 copies, colophon with artist's name corrected in manuscript, 1901 [1902]; Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Mortality, number 30 of 150 copies, 1903, Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, number 71 of 150 copies, 1903; Dryden's Alexander's Feast, number 54 of 140 copies, 1904.
* CHARLES OPPENHEIMER RSA RSW (BRITISH 1875 - 1961), SKETCH OF GARDEN AND HOUSE charcoal on papermounted, framed and under glass image size 16cm x 24cm, overall size 33cm x 40cm Provenance: the artist's studio sale, Thomson Roddick.Note: Charles Oppenheimer was born in Manchester in 1875. His mother was Scottish and the family owned a mosaic manufacturing business. He studied under Walter Crane at Manchester School of Art and in Italy. Although not a native Scot, (he didn't settle in Scotland until he was in his mid-thirties) he was passionate about his adopted home town of Kirkcudbright and found an endless source of subject matter in the 53 years he lived in the town. Kirkcudbright drew some of Scotland's greatest artists, such as Cadell and Fergusson, and many painters gathered here following the lead of E.A. Hornel. They were primarily attracted to the effect of the light on the hilly ground which produced soft colours and a spectrum of grey. Oppenheimer was a keen fisherman and many of his paintings dealt with the effect of light on water. His views of The Solway Coast and Whitby were used by British Rail for their advertising campaign 'See Britain By Rail'. He retained a love of Italy and produced some excellent canvasses of Venice and Florence. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, where he became a full member in 1934.
Shakespeare. Paton (Sir J. Noël, RSA, illustrator), The National Shakespeare: A Fac-simile of the Text of the First Folio of 1623, three volume set, London: William Mackenzie, n.d. [1888-89], black-ruled double-column, photogravure plates, original publisher's green cloth, pictorial gilt, slight wear, top edges gilt, others uncut, folio (41.5 x 27cm); Staunton (H., editor), Memorials of Shakespeare [...] Reproduced in Exact Fac-simile by Photo-lithography [...], first edition, London: Day & Son, n.d. [1864], split, original publisher's cloth, Cambridge Free Library: Shakespeare Library Shelf 26 No. 19, label, folio (39.5 x 25.5cm); [&] Crane (Walter, illustrator), Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare's Tempest, London: Dallastype Press, 1893, loose gatherings as issued, original publisher's cloth portfolio, folio (38 x 31cm), (5) Withdrawn ex-library stock, with their bookplates and labels, stamps &/or stickers. Some stamps might affect letterpress or plates. Unexamined and sold with all possible faults and not subject to return.
POE, Edgar Allan. Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination, first edition illustrated by Arthur Rackham, original publisher’s dark green Morocco with Rackham pictorial design in gilt, 12 plates well preserved with captioned tissue guards, ffep with offsetting, free endpapers detached along top of guttering, spotting at prelims and at fore/foot edge, gilt head edge, internally clean, London: George G. Harrap, 1935._LANG, Andrew (ed.). The Yellow Fairy Book, FIRST ed., original yellow cloth with beautiful pictorial design in gilt, fantastic illustrations by H. J. Ford, owner inscription at half-title page, light spotting in places, toning ffep verso, rubbing at extremities, fading at spine, London: Longman’s, 1894._ Household Stories of Grimm, Illustrated by Walter Crane, FIRST ed., original cloth with pictorial design, browning to frontispiece tissue guard, some spotting to prelims, some bumping to boards and scratch along spine, London: Macmillan, 1882._POWYS, T. F. Fables, d.j., SIGNED ltd ed. 669/700, spotting around edges, London: Chatto & Windus, 1929_MOORE, George. Peronnik the Fool, ltd ed. of 750, near fine, New York, Edwin Rudge, 1926._KIPPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories, FIRST ed., original cloth with attractive pictorial design, internally some spotting and marks with two small tears, text block a little shaken, bumping to extremities, some loss foot of spine, London: Macmillan, 1902._ BARRIE, J. M. Quality Street, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, original cloth with highly decorative design, bumping and fading to spine, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913._BALZAC, H. Les Contes Drolatiques, ltd ed. 2233/3000, bright solid copy, light wear on spine, Paris: Gilbert Jeune, 1940._LETCHFORD, Albert. Illustrations to Arabian Nights, FIRST of this ed., series D on plate paper, original cloth with highly decorative pictorial design in gilt, scattered spotting throughout, bumping to extremities, London: H. S. Nichols, 1897._CRANE, Walter. The Baby’s Opera, original cloth backed with attractive illustration, some wear and splitting at hinges, London Frederick Warne & co., undated [1876]._CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1893) and Through the Looking Glass (1899), people’s ed., later Morocco binding, London, Macmillan and co. (2) (12)
Rumbo Rhymes; Or, the Great Combine: a Satire; Written by Alfred C. Calmour, Rendered Into Pictures by Walter Crane. 1911. First Edition. Original decorated cloth. titles in red to the spine. Decorated endpapers. Half title, coloured titles over two pages. 22 full page coloured plates. first gathering starting to pull. occasional light marks.
ATTRIBUTED TO WALTER CRANE (BRITISH, 1845-1915) (4)Charcoal burners path watercolour and gouache 18 x 17.5cm together with Girl in an elegant interior, watercolour, manner of James Hayllar; Two women on a balcony, watercolour and bodycolour, English School; Classical woman with instrument, watercolour, manner of Robert of Fowler (4)
Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Sea Maiden vase, by Walter Crane and William Slater Mycock, on a blue ground, impressed mark 1905-1913, cyphers for Walter Crane and William Slater Mycock, no 2472, H25.5cm (restored)Condition Report:The rim restored (see photographs), otherwise very light and minimal surface scratching
Walter Crane, 6 titles: 'Echoes of Hellas. The Tale of Troy & the Story of Orestes from Homer & Aeschylus', London, Marcus Ward, 1887, 1st edition, 82 illustrations in black & red throughout by Walter Crane as called for, folio (38 x 29cm), original pictorial vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, 'Echoes of Hellas. Pianoforte Arrangement of the Music', L, Marcus Ward, 188, 1st edition, 66pp, folio (38 x 29cm), original pictorial vellum, top edge gilt, others uncut, 'The Sirens Three', L, Macmillan, 1886, 1st edition, illustrated in b/w by Walter Crane throughout, large 4to (28 x 22cm), orig. quarter cloth, pictorial paper covered boards, 'Slate and Pencil-vania: Being the Adventures of Dick on a Desert Island', L, Marcus Ward, 1885, 1st edition, colour illustrated leaves by Walter Crane throughout, 4to (22 x 22cm), orig. quarter cloth, pictorial paper covered boards, 'Cinderella's Picture Book; Containing Cinderella: Puss in Boots: and Valentine & Orson', L, John Lane the Bodley Head, [1897], 1st edition thus, full page colour illustrations by Walter Crane throughout as called for, p.6 & 7 of 'Cinderella' with marginal repaired tears (just affecting corners of illustrations), 4to (28 x 24cm), orig. pictorial cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip, 'The Baby's Opera', L, Routledge, [nd], c.1899, colour illustrated leaves by Walter Crane throughout (2 leaves with professionally repaired tears), small 4to (18.5 x 19cm), original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards (6)
Five tiles to include two Minton & Co examples, one with depiction of St Michael and three after designs by Walter Crane, one framed, largest 15.5 cm x 15.5 cm. [W] Condition Report: Minton tile depicting St Michael has a couple of chips to one of the front edges, largest 10 mm x 5 mm, crazing to the glaze, hairline cracks to the back, the other Minton tile has one chip to one of the front edges, some hairlines with some surrounding glaze loss and crazing. The unframed tiles after Walter Crane designs have some small areas of loss to the front edges, crazing throughout, some chipping / losses verso (more extensive to one), framed example has possible hairline crack visible to the front and some losses / chipping verso and a small depiction of a robin.
[Aubrey Beardsley etc] The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly published Elkin Matthews & John Lane 1894-1897 in 13 volumes (complete) with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Crane, Laurence Housman, Max Beerbohm etc, and with literary contributions by Kenneth Grahame, H.G. Wells, William Butler Yeats, Henry James and others, bound in original yellow and black pictorial cloth with pages mostly unopened
Religion – Birket Foster (Myles), illus. Sabbath Bells Chimed by the Poets, new edn., London, Ward, Lock & Tyler, n. d. (1874), 8vo, unpaginated, chromolithographic frontis., numerous engraving and vignettes, some in colour, gilt edges, bound black and gilt embossed bevelled boards with titles to front board and spine; Severin (Mark) and Reid (Andrew), European ex Libris 1950-1970: Engraved Bookplates, Pinner (Middlesex) Private Libraries Association 1972, royal 8vo, 176pp, profuse monochrome illus., orange end-papers matching printed dust wrapper, green cloth boards, virtually mint; Book of Common Prayer, stereotype edition, Cambridge 1822, small 8vo, Acts and Preliminaries, tables, etc. 32 + 33-60 + addendum: prayers and forms of service for use at sea, gunpowder Treason, Restoration of the Royal Family, King’s Accession, Articles of Religion, Tables of Kindred and Affinity, bound with Tate (Nahum 1652-1715) & Brady (Nicholas, 1659-1726), A New Version of the Psalms of David, Cambridge 1824, 84pp, heraldic book plate, arms of de Rodes in garter with motto and crest above, Barlborough Hall below, gilt edges, blue endpapers, bound maroon boards, gilt lines and lettered Barlbro’ Hall/1826 to front board, five raised bands and gilt titles to spine with date 1822, front board and spine coming away (2) *** The prayer book is from the domestic chapel of Barlborough Hall, Derbyshire, one of a number commissioned by Cornelius Heathcote de Rodes, (d. 1825) the squire. The hall was built c. 1590 by Robert Smythson of Judge Sir Francis Rodes (d. 1588), whose son was created a baronet and whose line became extinct in 1743 (albeit with a surviving branch in the US), but the family continued through three female lines, retaining the name de Rodes until inherited by Godfrey Locker-Lampson, MP. Since his death the house has been a Catholic prep school; Various – Smiles (Samuel, 1812-1904), Lives of the Engineers: Early Engineering, popular edition, London, John Murray, 1904, 8vo, xxxiv + 380pp, 6 plates and 49 line illus., Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Sir Hugh Myddleton, Bt., Captain Perry, James Brindley with an appendix on Pierre-Paul Riquet, bound embossed red boards, gilt titles to spine; Smiles (Samuel, 1812-1904), Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie: Harbours-Lighthouses-Bridges, popular edition, London, John Murray, 1904 12mo, 459pp, frontis of Smeaton, 7 plans 78 line illus., label to inside cover Evans, Fraser & Co. Bombay, library sticker inside rear board, red embossed boards, gilt embellishments, gilt spine titles, spine tearing at top; Smiles (Sameul 1812-1904), The Story of the Life of George Stephenson including a Memoir of his son, Robert Stephenson, revised edn., London, John Murray, 1864, 12mo, 380pp, engraved frontis., illustrations, bound embossed red boards, gilt titles and spine titles, spine tearing at top); Blackburn (Henry), Randolph Caldecott: A Personal Memoir of His Early Art Career, 1st edn., London, Sampson Low, 1886 8vo, xvi + 216pp, 172 illus., gilt edges, gilt and black printed green boards, gilt spine titles (4); Various – Aldin (Cecil 1870-1935) Old Inns, new impression, London, William Heinemann 1921, large 8vo, 149pp, 16 coloured plates and 12 monochrome, black boards, gilt titles and to spine; Cundall (H, M., ISO, FSA), Birket Foster RWS, London, A & C Black, 1st edition, 1906, 8vo, xx + 216pp, 73 colour illus., 78 monochrome, bound colour printed blue boards, gilt titles; Crane (Walter), Line and Form by Walter Crane, London, 1st edn., George Bell, 1900, 8vo, xvi + 282pp, profusely illustrated, pink and white printed endpapers, gilt titles and design on blue boards
Of Arts and Crafts and Lewis Foreman Day interest, a carved oak wall mirror, c.1913, by Philis Ford Day, the carved moulding with floral swags, centred with the 'Day' crest, in high and low relief,58cm wide 94.5cm high,a certificate from the 'School of Art Wood-Carving' to Philis Ford Day, signed by Walter Crane and others, in a gilt frame, 42 x 53cm, anda copy of 'Moot Points' by Lewis Foreman Day and Walter Crane, 1903 (3)Condition ReportBook - fair. Mirror good. Certificate - fair overall
An Aesthetic Movement walnut bracket clock, c.1870, the design attributed to Lewis Foreman Day (1845-1910), the case inset with painted ceramic panels in the manner of Walter Crane, the upper part of the case with a domed top, set with a dial painted with Arabic numerals, raised on column supports, the lower section with a central panel decorated with the Sphinx and the Pyramids at Giza opening to reveal the pendulum, with a half-dead-beat escapement movement, 32cm wide19.5cm deep49cm high Provenance: Sotheby's, April 30 1980;the Estate of Max Clendinning and Ralph Adron.Condition ReportWith a crack to the cornice. The dial has been restored. The tiles with some fading. With general scuffs and marks to the frame.
Morris (William) Alfred Linnell Killed in Trafalgar Square, November 20, 1887. A Death Song, 8pp., illustration by Walter Crane, light spotting, unbound, Sold for the Benefit of Linnell's Orphans, 1887; Art and Socialism: A Lecture delivered [January 23rd, 1884] before the Secular Society of Leicester, large paper, reprint for the Bijou Advertiser, Pickford Waller's copy with his bookplate, contemporary half morocco, by Truslove & Hanson, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, original yellow wrappers printed in red bound in, 1884; The Socialist Ideal of Art, 12pp., stapled, 1891 [1896]; The Collected Letters, edited by Norman Kelvin, 4 vol. in 5, original cloth, dust-jackets, Princeton, NJ, 1984-96 § Morris & Company Ltd. Morris Wall-papers, trade catalogue, illustrations, with a bundle of letters & invoices to Pickford Waller from various booksellers concerning Kelmscott books loosely inserted, original printed wrappers with decorative border, [n.d.]; and c.30 others relating to Morris and a small bundle of ephemera, 8vo & 4to (sm. qty)*** The first commemorates the death of Alfred Linnell, a young clerk, on 2nd December 1887. On Sunday 13th November 10,000 people including William Morris and George Bernard Shaw had demonstrated in Trafalgar Square against repression in Ireland and unemployment. There were violent clashes and many were beaten by police with truncheons. This was the original "Bloody Sunday" and resulted in another protest against the police and army in Trafalgar Square the following week. During this Alfred Linnell was knocked down by a police horse and later died of his injuries, causing a mass outcry. People flocked to his funeral on 18th December and William Morris, as leader of the Socialist League, gave the main address and produced this pamphlet to raise money for Linnell's family.
Walter Crane (British, 1845-1915) Plymouth, circa 1866watercolour17 x 34cmProvenance:The collection of Denis Thomas, KentExhibited:Bromhead, Cutts & Co., Cork Street, London, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Walter Crane, April-May 1920, No. 61Illustrated:Denis Thomas (Ed.), The Price Guide to English Watercolours, pub. Antique Collectors Club, 1971, p. 130The present watercolour was likely executed during the young artist's visit to Cawsand Bay in 1866, where he stayed from 28th July to 17th August.
A 19th Century 6 inch dust pressed tile hand painted with two ladies in classical dress seated to a balcony looking out to sea, hand painted monogram to the front and back, possibly a Doulton Lambeth artist, together with a W. T Copeland plastic clay example decorated with a transfer printed and painted nursery rhyme of Little Bo Peep in the manner of Walter Crane and a further Mintons China Works example decorated with a hunt scene. (3)
A collection of 19th Century 6 inch dust pressed figural tiles, including Minton Hollins & Co, painted decoration depicting girl reading on country path, a fiddler on an upturned barrel, a plastic clay nursery rhyme tile of Little Boy Blue and a later 20th Century transfer printed tile after Walter Crane 'Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid'. (5)
A collection of four 8 inch dust pressed tiles, to include a Maw & Co Ltd with a design by Walter Crane to accompany his set of Four Season tiles, a Minton's China Works example with a central portrait in profile and decorative floral motifs, part of a larger panel, a Minton's & Co terracotta tile with repeat fleur-de-lis pattern and a Minton's tile with an abstract floral motif, all with colour glaze finish. (4)
Three 19th Century 6 inch dust pressed tiles, including a Minton Hollins & Co example blue painted over white ground with a portrait of a lady with church tower, titled Architecture, together with two printed tiles, one in the manner of Walter Crane and tilted Phyllis is My Only Joy, and another titled Hermia from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. (3)
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