Details

Subject(s)

• Children's stories, English [Browse]
• Winter—Juvenile literature [Browse]

Publisher

Cassell & Company [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Publishers' catalogs [Browse]

Notes

• Publisher's catalogue follows text on second p. 1-8.
• Pages 1-40 (i.e. all except title leaf) printed on double leaves with fold at fore-edge.
• Illustrations: Color t.p. and 40 other pages of full-page color illustrations, all signed with Crane's "WC" crane glyph; hand-lettered text.
• "Decorated grey boards and endpapers by the artist'' (Massé).
• Includes an author's Preface, dated Aug. 1887, about the origins of the book's "sketches" as winter's tales for his son, Lionel.

Binding note

Pub. gray, maroon, and black pictorial bds., featuring cranes in the design and signed with Crane's glyph, over maroon cloth; maroon and white patterned endpapers repeating the initials "LL" and a rampant lion.

References

Massé, G.C.E. Walter Crane, p. 37

LCCN

15002200

OCLC

25819566

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