The art of Walter Crane / by P.G. Konody

P.G. Konody

RA Collection: Book

Record number

22/212

Author

Imprint

London: George Bell & Sons, 1902

Physical Description

xiii, [1], 147, [1] pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plates (some colour), portraits, facsimiles ; 35 cm.

General Note

Decorated title page in black and red.
The printer is named on the verso of the title page `Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London'
24 chromolithographic plates, and over 100 additional plates and illustrations.
Binding designed by Walter Crane.
Includes printed slip tipped in with Crane's disclaimer of responsibility for the contents of the book.

Contents

Art and Socialism -- The making of the artist -- Art for the nursery -- Book illustrations -- Walter Crane the painter -- Theory and practice -- Walter Crane the craftsman -- The harvest of honours -- Appendix I: List of Walter Crane's exhibited pictures -- Appendix II: List of books illustrated or written by Walter Crane

Provenance

The front pastedown carries the engraved bookplate of Claud Lambton. [Possibly the Lambton who was a director of Morris & Co.?].

Binding Note

Light blue cloth with elaborate gilt decorations, titles and illustrations on the covers; gilt titles and illustrations on the spine. Top edge gilt, fore-edge and tail deckle-edged paper. Decorative endpapers in green.

Name as Subject

Subject

Chromolithography

Contributors