Legends for Lionel : in pen and pencil / by Walter Crane.

Author
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; Paris ; New York ; Melbourne : Cassell & Company, Limited, 1887.
Description
[2], 40, [2], 8 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

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Subject(s)
Publisher
Rare books genre
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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