SPENSER, Edmund. Faerie Queen. A Poem in six books with the fragment mutabilitie. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Pictures by Walter Crane , London: George Allen 1897-96, 6 volumes, 4°, limited to 1000 copies, illustrations and floral borders, original cream cloth gilt, with lettering on upper covers in red; The Shepheard's Calender. Newly adorned with twelve pictures and other devices by Walter Crane New York: Harper, 1898, 8°, first edition, illustrations and floral borders, original green pictorial cloth with coloured design by Crane (inner joints weak) [Massé p.51] -- BROTHERS GRIMM. Household Stories. Translated from the German by Lucy Crane, London: Macmillan, 1882, 8°, first trade edition, illustrations by Crane (without the 2pp. advertisements at end), original green decorated cloth after Crane [Massé p.33] -- F.S. ELLIS. The History of Reynard the Fox. With devices by Walter Crane London: David Nutt, 1897, small 4°, second edition, illustrations, (occasional light offsetting), contemporary limp vellum [Massé p.50] Provenance: Charles Fairfax Murray; and 6 others with illustrations by Crane, including the first trade edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wonder Book (1892). (15)
SPENSER, Edmund. Faerie Queen. A Poem in six books with the fragment mutabilitie. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Pictures by Walter Crane , London: George Allen 1897-96, 6 volumes, 4°, limited to 1000 copies, illustrations and floral borders, original cream cloth gilt, with lettering on upper covers in red; The Shepheard's Calender. Newly adorned with twelve pictures and other devices by Walter Crane New York: Harper, 1898, 8°, first edition, illustrations and floral borders, original green pictorial cloth with coloured design by Crane (inner joints weak) [Massé p.51] -- BROTHERS GRIMM. Household Stories. Translated from the German by Lucy Crane, London: Macmillan, 1882, 8°, first trade edition, illustrations by Crane (without the 2pp. advertisements at end), original green decorated cloth after Crane [Massé p.33] -- F.S. ELLIS. The History of Reynard the Fox. With devices by Walter Crane London: David Nutt, 1897, small 4°, second edition, illustrations, (occasional light offsetting), contemporary limp vellum [Massé p.50] Provenance: Charles Fairfax Murray; and 6 others with illustrations by Crane, including the first trade edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wonder Book (1892). (15)
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