Male : Book Illustrator,
textile, card and calendar designer. Apprenticed to a London wood
engraving firm, subsequently forming a successful partnership with the
printer, Edmund Evans. Shared
William Morris's artistic and political beliefs.
AUNT MAVOR and WALTER CRANE SIXPENNY TOY BOOKS
(Routledge unless stated)
1865-1870
The House that Jack Built (1865 Ward Lock & Tyler)
The Comical Cat (1865 WL & T)
The Affecting Story of Jenny Wren (1865 WL & T)
The Railroad Alphabet (1865)
The Farmyard Alphabet (1865)
Cock Robin (1866 Warne)
Sing a Song of Sixpence (1866 Warne)
A Gaping Wide Mouth Waddling Frog (1866 Warne)
The Old Courtier (1867 Warne)
Multiplication Table in Verse (1867)
Chattering Jack (1867)
How Jessie was Lost (1868)
Grammar in Rhyme (1868)
Annie and Jack in London (1869)
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1869)
The Fairy Ship (1870)
The Adventures of Puffy (1870)
This Little Pig went to Market (1870)
King Luckieboy's Party (1870)
1871-1873
King Luckieboy's Picture Book (1871)
Routledge's Book of Alphabets (1871)
Noah's Ark Alphabet (1872)
My Mother (1873)
Ali Bab and the Forty Thieves (1873)
The Three Bears (1873)
Cinderella (1873)
Walter Crane's New Toy Book (1873)
1874-1875
Walter Crane's Picture Book (1874)
Valentine and Orson (1874)
Puss in Boots (1874)
Old Mother Hubbard (1874)
The Absurd ABC (1874)
The Frog Prince (1874)
Goody Two Shoes (1874)
Beauty and the Beast (1874)
The Alphabet of Old Friends (1874)
Our Pets' Coloured Picture Book (nd. c1874 Routledge)
- with others
Little Red Riding Hood (1875)
Jack and the Beanstalk (1875)
Bluebeard (1875)
Baby's Own Alphabet (1875)
The Yellow Dwarf (1875)
Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp (1875)
The Hind in the Wood (1875)
Princess Belle Etoile (1875)
1876-1900
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (1876)
Absurd Alphabet, Baby's Own Alphabet & Noah's Ark Alphabet (c1878)
- 1st combined edition
Walter Crane's Picture Books (1895, 1897, 1897 & 1898 John Lane)
- 4 vols
1901-1914
Beauty and the Beast Picture Book (1901 John Lane)
Goody Two Shoes Picture Book (1901 John Lane)
The Song of Sixpence Picture Book (1909 John Lane)
The Buckle My Shoe Picture Book (1910 John Lane)
Puss in the Boots and The Forty thieves (1914 John Lane)
The Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard (1914 John Lane)
The Three Bears and Mother Hubbard (1914 John Lane)
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WALTER CRANE
1875-1885
Mrs Mundi at Home (1875 Marcus Ward)
The Quiver of Love : A Collection of Valentines (1876 Marcus Ward)
- with Kate Greenaway
The Baby's Opera : Old Rhymes with New Dresses (1877 Routledge)
The Baby's Bouquet (1878 Routledge)
Mother Goose's Jingles (1878)
- with Harrison Weir, et al
The Children's Musical Cinderella (1879 Routledge)
- tunes by Wm Routledge & Louise Parker
Chattering Jack (1880 Routledge)
Slateandpencilvania (1885 Marcus Ward)
1886-1890
Little Queen Anne (1886 Marcus Ward)
Pothooks and Perseverance or the ABC Serpent (1886 Marcus Ward)
A Romance of the Three R's (1886 MW)
The Sirens Three : A Poem (1886 Macmillan)
Legends for Lionel in Pen and Pencil (1887 Cassell)
Little Miss Peggy : Only a Nursery Story (1887 Macmillan)
Flora's Feast : A Masque of Flowers (1889 Cassell)
1891-1900
Society for the Encouragement of Arts,
Manufacture & Commerce : Lectures (1891 W Trounce)
Queen Summer, or The Tourney of the Lily & The Rose (1891 Cassell)
- 250 Large Paper
Renascence : A Book of Verse (1891 Elkin Mathews)
- 500 numbered
The Claims of Decorative Art (1892 Lawrence & Bullen)
(1892 Houghton Mifflin)
Columbia's Courtship (1893 Prang & Co, US)
Cartoons for the Cause 1886-1896 - A Souvenir of the International Socialist Workers
& Trade Union Congress, 1896 (1896 Twentieth Century Press)
Offered in 1991 for £390
Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old & New (1896 Bell)
- 130 on Japanese vellum
A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Graden (1898 Harper)
The Bases of Design (1898 George Bell)
(1902. 2nd Ed)
Triplets (1899 Routledge)
- Ltd Ed 500
Line and Form (1900 George Bell)
Walter Crane's Picture Book (1900 Warne)
- Ltd Ed 750
After 1901
Moot Points (1903 Batsford)
A Flower Wedding (1905 Cassell)
Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden (1906 Cassell)
India Impressions : a Winter Tour 1906-7 (1907 Methuen)
(1907 Macmillan NY)
An Artist's Reminiscences (1907 Methuen)
Baby's Own Aesop (c1910 Warne)
Hazelford Sketchbook (1937 John Barnard Associates)
- Ltd Ed 700
Michael Mouse Unfolds His Tale (1956 Yale Univ Press, US)
Cartoons for the Cause 1886-1896 (1976 Journeyman Press)
- Foreword by John Betjeman. 100 signed by Betjeman
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AESOP : The Baby's Own Aesop (1887 Routledge)
JOHN AIKIN & MRS BARBAULD - Evenings at Home (1867 Warne)
(Ed)
H C BEECHING : A Book of Christmas Verse (1895 Methuen)
- with 10 designs by Crane
A CALMOUR - Rumbo Rhymes (1911 Harper)
MOTHER CAREY - Our Old Uncle's Home (1872)
LUCY CRANE - Art and the Formation of Taste (1883 Macmillan)
NELLIE DALE : The Dale Readers - Book II (1899 George Philip)
Steps to Reading (nd. c1910 George Philip)
MARGARET DELANE - The Old Garden & other Verses (1893 Osgood, Mcilvaine)
(1894 Houghton Mifflin)
F S ELLIS : The History of Reynard the Fox (1897 David Nutt)
The Work of Walter Crane (1898 Virtue)
BROTHERS GRIMM : Household Stories (1882 Macmillan)
MARY DE MORGAN : The Necklace of Princess Fiormonde (1880 Macmillan)
Henry GILBERT :
King Arthur's Knights (1911 Jack, London)
(1911 Stokes, NY)
- Walter Crane
Robin Hood & The Men of the Greenwood (nd. 1912 Jack)
- Walter Crane
E J GOULD : The Children's Plutarch (1906)
MRS BURTON HARRISON : Folk and Fairy Tales (1885 Ward & Downey)
ELIZABETH HARRISON : The Vision of Dante (1894)
AGNES DE HAVILLAND : Stories from Memel (1864)
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE - Transformation (1865)
A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls (1892 Osgood, McIlvaine)
ARTHUR KELLY : The Rosebud & Other Tales (1909 Fisher & Unwin)
CHARLES LAMB : A Masque of Days by Elia (1901 Cassell)
MARK LEMON : Wait for the End (1866)
M MACGREGOR - The Story of Greece (1913 Jack)
THEODORE MARZIALS : Pan Pipes : A Book of Old Songs (1883 Routledge)
BROTHERS MAYHEW -:The Magic of Kindness (1869)
The Absurd ABC (c1870-4 Routledge)
PROF J M D MEIKLEJOHN - The Golden Primer (Parts 1 & 2)
(1884-5 Wm Blackwood)
- 2 vols
MARY MOLESWORTH (all Macmillan)
: Tell Me a Story (1875)
Carrots (1876)
The Cuckoo Clock (1877)
Grandmother Dear (1878)
The Tapestry Room (1879)
A Christmas Child (1880)
The Adventures of Heir Baby (1881)
Rosy (1882)
Two Little Waifs (1883)
Christmas-Tree Land (1884)
US (1885)
Four Winds Farm (1886)
Little Miss Piggy (1887)
A Christmas Posy (1888)
The Rectory Children (1889)
The Children of the Castle (1890)
Studies and Stories (1893 A D Innes)
WALTER MORRIS : William Morris to Whistler (1911 Bell)
- Ltd Ed 350
WILLIAM MORRIS : The Story of the Glittering Plain (1894 Kelmscott Press)
- Ltd Ed 257
HARRIET PARR : The Truth, Pathetic History of Poor Match (1863)
[1st childrens book illus by Crane]
JUDGE PARRY (Trans)
: Don Quixote (1900 Blackie)
K E J REID (compiled)
: A Book of Wedding Days (1889 Longmans)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - The Tempest (1893 Dent)
- 650 signed by Crane and the Printer
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1894 George Allen)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (1894 Dent)
EDMUND SPENSER - The Faerie Queen (1894-7 George Allen)
- issued in 19 parts
The Shepheard's Calendar (1898 Harper)
PROF GEORGE C WARR - Echoes of Hellas (1887 Marcus Ward)
- 2 vols
A A WATTS - The Child's Socialist reader (1907 Methuen)
OSCAR WILDE - The Happy Prince & Other Tales (1888 David Nutt)
JOHN DE CAPEL WISE - The New Forest : Its History and Scenery (1863 Smith Elder)
JOHN R WISE - The First of May : A Fairy Masque (1881 Henry Sotheran)
- Signed Ltd Ed 300
PERIODICALS
The Argosy, Atalanta, The Churchman's Shilling Magazine, The Clarion, The Commonwealth,
The English illustrated Magazine, Entertaining Things, Every Boy's Magazine, Fun,
Good Words, The Graphic, Justice, Little Folks, London Society, Once a Week,
The People's Magazine, Punch, Strand Magazine, Time, tinsley's Magazine, Woman's World,
The Yellow Book
READING
Paul George Konody : The Art of Walter Crane (1902 Bell)
Gertrude C E Masse : A Bibliography of First Editions of Books Illustrated by Walter Crane
(1923 Chelsea Publishing Co)
(1977 Carl Slienger, London - 250)
Rodney Engen : Walter Crane as a Book Illustrator (1975 Academy Editions)
- pb
Isobel Spencer : Walter Crane (1975 Studio Vista)