Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £60 |
CRANE, Walter (1845-1915). Renascence. A Book of Verse. London: "Elkin Matthews at the Sign of the Bodley Head", 1891. Small 4to (190 x 140mm). Illustration on the title, the illustrations and ornaments by Walter Crane, 3-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end. Original parchment-backed blue paper boards, uncut. Provenance: [?]G [?]S (old ex-libris sticker with initials). FIRST EDITION OF WALTER CRANE'S ONLY BOOK OF POETRY. ONE OF 500 "SMALL PAPER" COPIES, THIS NUMBER 108 OF 350 COPIES "OF THE ENGLISH EDITION". With Voltaire's The Princess of Babylon (London, The Nonesuch Press, 1927, 8vo, illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky, original vellum-backed marbled paper boards, NUMBER 437 OF 1,500 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed by the artist William Russell Flint (1880-1967), "To Margaret with Dear affection and love from Willie, 3.9.'37." (2)