= With prospectus loosely inserted. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXII.
= Very fine copy printed on name of Jean de Becker-Remy.
- New endpapers; spine foxed.
- Promenade backwr. s. some sufrace dam. = Facsimile reprint of the original eds. (Amst., 1949, printed in 12 copies each). Slagter 3a and 3b.
- Foxed throughout, but not affecting plates; remnants of glue and sellophane on pastedowns.
Russian Fairy Tales, from the Skazi of Polevoi. Transl. R. Nisbet Bain. Ibid., idem, 1915, 1st ed., 283p., col. frontisp. and 16 (4x col.) plates by N.L. NISBET (incl. mounted plate on frontcover), bound unif. w. the above.
- Endpapers foxed, rest of contents occas. trifle foxed.
- Some foxing, also sl. affecting plates in blank margins.
= Sarkowski 776. The first book that Harry Kessler commissioned from Craig.
- Boardedges (sl.) worn. Bookplate on upper pastedown, otherwise fine.
= Massé p.36; Spencer, Walter Crane p.97.
Idem. The Baby's Bouquet. A Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes & Tunes. Ibid., G. Routledge and Sons, n.d. (1878), 1st ed., 56p., col. frontisp., title, col. ills. (10 full-p.), bookdec., endpapers and orig. clothbacked dec. boards engr. and printed by E. EVANS after W. CRANE, scores, sq. 8vo.
- First and last few lvs. foxed and contents occas. trifle foxed; owner's entry and bookplate on upper pastedown and free endpaper. Boards sl. worn along extremites.
= "A Companion to the "Baby's Opera". The Tunes Collected & Arranged by L.[ucy] C.[rane]" (title-p.). Spencer, Walter Crane p.77; The Children's World of Learning 3670; Bilderwelt 2228; Ki.la.ki.le. 619; Brüggemann II, 148; Osborne I, p.93. On Evans see P. Muir, Victorian Illustrated Books p.157, 158 and 164; Johnson 44.
- Bookblock weak; bookplate on verso first free endpaper. Backstrip dam.; frontcover trifle stained (unobtrusive).
= Massé p.51; Spencer, Walter Crane p.138: "(...) illustrates the more formal trend of Crane's graphic style at the end of the century (...)"; Osborne I, p.58.
Idem. Flora's Feast. A Masque of Flowers. London/ Paris/ Melbourne, Cassell & Company, 1895, 40,(2),(8 publ. advert.)p. with 40 full-p. col. lithogr. ills., endpapers and orig. clothbacked dec. boards by W. CRANE, bound as a blockbook, 4to.
- Lacks first free endpaper; owner's entry and cut-out portion in title-p. Binding (sl.) worn and browned.
= Ray 247; Houfe p.271; Spencer, Walter Crane p.106: "(...) [his] first and finest flower book (...)".
- Endpapers browned. Bindings sl. dustsoiled and read out of shape.
= Massé p.50: "The author is desirous that the version now printed should be considered as altogether superseding that which he published in 1894."
Crane, W. Pan-Pipes. Newly arranged & with accompaniments by T. Marzials. Ibid., George Routledge and sons, n.d. (±1889), 2nd ed., 51,(1)p., col. lithogr. ills. and orig. clothbacked pict. boards by W. CRANE, obl. 4to.
- Binding sl. worn along extremities and covers sl. scratched. = Cf. Massé p.34.
- Second part (bound before the first part) waterst. in lower margin throughout and occas. fingersoiled; both parts plates sl. foxed. and occas. torn/ sl. dam. at inner hinges (repaired/ newly attached w. tape); a few marg. tears. Endpapers cut short.
= Dutch adaptations of The Bottle and The Children of the Drunkard (publ. 1847/1848). Cat. The Children's World of Learning 3675 (not mentioning Des Dronkaard's kinderen). With nice bookplate on htitle: "Bibliotheek der Ned. Vereeniging tot Afschaffing van Sterken Drank, Afdeling Rotterdam".
- Usual foxing (hardly affecting plates). All vols. spine strengthened and vol. 1 outer margins strengthened; wr. occas. sl. frayed/ foxed; sm. ticket on frontcover vol. 1 and 9.
= Cohn 181; Ray p.69: "Pierce Egan's Life in London brought him to wide public notice as an illustrator, and for the next twenty-five years he poured forth drawings of unpreceding abundance, variety, and excellence. Novels (...) were his particular speciality, but when the books of others did not present themselves, he offered volumes of his own like My Sketch Book".
AND 1 other by the same: Scraps and Sketches (London, 1828, woodengr. plates, orig. clothbacked (frayed) wr., obl. folio).
- (Very) fine copy.
= Nancy Cunard's very scarce British Surrealist portfolio. Poems by Nancy Cunard, Cecily Mackworth, James Law Forsyth and James Findlay Hendry. Etchings/ engravings by John Banting, John Buckland Wright, Ronald Penrose (engraved by John Buckland Wright, signed by both artists), Ithell Colquhoun, John Piper, Dolf Rieser, Charles Salisbury, Geza Szobel, Julian Trevelyan and Mary Wykeham (numb. "38/100" prob. by mistake). With a loosely inserted letterpress announcement leaf for this publication. Published by Cunard as 'a limited edition of new poems, etchings and engravings' to raise money for the 'Comforts Fund for Women and Children of Soviet Russia' after the invasion by the Germans. The portfolio was edited by Cunard and John Banting (contains his only etching) and includes John Piper's first published engraving. SEE ILUSTRATION PLATE XXXII.
- Occas. sl. foxed. = Monod 3439.
= With 2 New Year's wishes, both signed by the publisher and a prospectus loosely inserted.
AND 1 other.
= Printed "bei Poeschel & Trepte in Leipzig für die 99 Mitglieder des Leipziger Bibliophilen-Abends". This copy "Gedruckt für W. Breslauer."
- Both vols. w. bookplate on upper pastedown; endpapers foxed; plates partly soiled/ sl. foxed in blank margins. Binding sl. soiled/ discoloured.
= Signed by the illustrator.