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THE WALTER CRANE

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A truly unique and wonderful collection of 100 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the first time on one USB flash drive featuring the wonderful children’s literature and illustrations of WALTER CRANE.

Walter Crane was an English artist and book illustrator born in Liverpool on 15^th August 1845. He is considered to be among the most prolific and most influential children’s book creator of his generation, and along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child’s nursery motif that the genre of English children’s illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental period in the latter 19^th century. Crane’s work featured some of the more colorful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children’s stories for years to come. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material and wonderful illustrations. Overall, an absolute must for anyone with an interest in Walter Crane and the illustration of children’s literature. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

This superb compilation of 100 vintage books on USB flash drive provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.

This is without doubt the most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by rare-book-collections, and only available here!

The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:

1, 2, buckle my shoe - W. Crane (1869)

A Christmas child; a sketch of a boy-life - Mrs Molesworth (1880)

A floral fantasy in an old English garden - W. Crane (1899)

A flower wedding, described by two wallflowers - W. Crane (1905)

A masque of days, from the last essays of Elia - C. Lamb (1901)

A romance of the three Rs - W. Crane (1874)

A wonder book for girls & boys - N. Hawthorne (1892)

Aladdin - W. Crane (1892)

Ali Baba and the forty thieves - W. Crane (1898)

An artist's reminiscences - W. Crane (1917)

An inland voyage - R. L. Stevenson (1878)

Art and the formation of taste - L. Crane (1882)

Beauty and the beast - W. Crane (1893)

Beauty and the Beast - W. Crane (1875)

Beauty and the beast picture book; containing Beauty and the beast, The frog prince, The hind in the wood - W. Crane (1911)

Bluebeard - W. Crane (1873)

Bluebeard's picture book - containing Bluebeard, The sleeping beauty, and Baby's own alphabet, with the original coloured designs - W. Crane (1899)

Buckle my shoe picture book - W. Crane (1910)

Carrots - just a little boy - Mrs Molesworth (1892)

Chants of labour - a song book of the people with music - E. Carpenter (1922)

Christmas-tree land - Mrs Molesworth (1884)

Cinderella picture book; containing Cinderella, Puss in boots, Valentine and Orson - W. Crane (1911)

Don Quixote of the Mancha - retold by Judge Parry (1920)

Eight illustrations to Shakespeare's Tempest - W. Crane (1894)

Fairy ship - W. Crane (1888)

Flowers from Shakespeare's garden, a posy from the plays - W. Crane (1909)

Four winds farm - Mrs Molesworth (1887)

Goody Two Shoes - W. Crane (1874)

Goody-two-shoes - W. Crane (1902)

Grammar in rhyme - W. Crane (1868)

Grandmother dear, and, Two little waifs - Mrs Molesworth (1883)

Household stories - W. Grimm (1882)

Ideals in art papers - theoretical, practical, critical - W. Crane (1905)

In the fire, and other fancies - E. J. Richmond (1892)

India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour; 1906-7 - W. Crane (1907)

Intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood - W. Wordsworth (1903)

King Arthur's knights; the tales retold for boys and girls - T. Malory (1911)

Legends for Lionel, in pen and pencil - W. Crane (1887)

Line & form - W. Crane (1914)

Little Miss Peggy, only a nursery story - Mrs Molesworth (1887)

Little Red Riding Hood - W. Crane (1875)

Mother Goose's nursery rhymes, a collection of alphabets, rhymes, tales, and jingles - W. Crane & Others (1877)

Mother Hubbard her picture book, containing Mother Hubbard, The three bears, & The absurb A, B, C, with the original coloured pictures, an illustrated preface, & odds & end papers - W. Crane (1897)

My mother - A. Taylor (1873)

Of the decorative illustration of books old and new (first edition) - W. Crane (1896)

Of the decorative illustration of books old and new (third edition - revised) - W. Crane (1905)

Old Mother Hubbard - S. C. Martin (1873)

Princess Belle-Etoile - W. Crane (1909)

Queen Summer, or, The tourney of the lily & the rose - W. Crane (1891)

Renascence; a book of verse - W. Crane (1891)

Rosy - Mrs Molesworth (1883)

Rumbo rhymes; or, The great combine a satire - A. C. Calmour (1911)

Slateandpencil-vania - being the adventures of Dick on a desert island - W. Crane (1885)

Song of sixpence picture book; containing, Song of sixpence; Princess Belle Etoile; An alphabet of old friends - W. Crane (1909)

Spenser's Faerie queene Vol. 1 - E. Spencer (1895)

Spenser's Faerie queene Vol. 2 - E. Spencer (1895)

Spenser's Faerie queene Vol. 3 - E. Spencer (1895)

Spenser's Faerie queene Vol. 4 - E. Spencer (1895)

Spenser's Faerie queene Vol. 5 - E. Spencer (1895)

Spenser's Faerie queene Vol. 6 - E. Spencer (1895)

The absurd A.B.C - W. Crane (1892)

The adventures of Herr Baby - Mrs Molesworth (1920)

The alphabet of old friends - W. Crane (1874)

The art of Walter Crane - P. G. Konody (1902)

The baby's bouquet - a fresh bunch of old rhymes & tunes (1901)

The baby's opera - a book of old rhymes, with new dresses - W. Crane (1900)

The baby's own Aesop - being the fables condensed in rhyme with portable morals pictorially pointed by Walter Crane (1908)

The Bases Of Design - W. Crane (1920)

The children's Plutarch, tales of the Romans - F. J. Gould (1910)

The claims of decorative art - W. Crane (1892)

The cuckoo clock - Mrs Molesworth (1882)

The Farm yard alphabet - W. Crane (1865)

The Forty thieves - W. Crane (1898)

The frog prince - W. Crane (1874)

The golden primer Pt. 1 - J. Meiklejohn (1884)

The golden primer Pt. 2 - J. Meiklejohn (1884)

The happy prince and other tales - O. Wilde (1910)

The happy prince and other tales Vol. 2 - O. Wilde (1888)

The hind in the wood - W. Crane (1875)

The history of Reynard the Fox, his friends and his enemies, his crimes, hairbreadth escapes and final triumph - F. S. Ellis (1897)

The history of Sandford and Merton - T. Day (1890)

The Marquis of Carabas' picture book - containing Puss in Boots, Old Mother Hubbard, Valentine and Orson, The absurd ABC - W. Crane (1874)

The necklace of Princess Fiorimonde, and other stories - M. De Morgan (1886)

The old garden and other verses - M. Deland (1894)

The shepheard's calender twelve aeglogues proportionable to the twelve monethes - E. Spenser (1898)

The sirens three, a poem - W. Crane (1886)

The sleeping beauty picture book - containing The sleeping beauty, Bluebeard, The baby's own alphabet - W. Crane (1911)

The song of sixpence picture book - containing Sing a song of sixpence, Princess Belle Etoile, An alphabet of old friends - W. Crane (1909)

The Song Of Sixpence Pocket Book - W. Crane (1909)

The story of the Glittering Plain which has been also called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying - W. Morris (1894)

The tapestry room; a child's romance - Mrs Molesworth (1879)

The vision of Dante, a story for little children and a talk to their mothers - E. Harrison (1884)

The work of Walter Crane - W. Crane (1898)

The yellow dwarf - W. Crane (1875)

Triplets - comprising, The baby's opera, The baby's bouquet, and The baby's own Æsop - W. Crane (1899)

Valentine and Orson - W. Crane (1897)

Walter Crane - O. Von Schleinitz (1902) (GERMAN TEXT)

Walter Crane's painting book - W. Crane (1889)

Walter Crane's picture books - W. Crane (1900)

William Morris to Whistler - W. Crane (1911)

An absolute must for anyone with an interest in Walter Crane and children’s book illustration – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!

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All of the files are hi-resolution scans presented in pdf format, easy to read on your computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or any modern Kindle / ebook reader that can read pdf files. All files can be printed or transferred between devices.

For some devices you may need to convert the pdf files. A free program called Calibre can be used to do this and can be included on the USB drive if requested.

Please note that this is a portable USB drive that will contain all of the books, documents and material listed in this auction. It will work in a laptop or computer (including MAC) but cannot be connected to a normal DVD player / TV, X-Box or audio CD player.

** Main photo is for illustration purposes only – other photos are example pages from the books included on the USB drive **

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