Walter Crane (1845-1915)

Walter Crane (1845-1915)

a collection of books illustrated by Walter Crane, comprising Triplets (including The Baby's Opera), published by George Routledge & Sons, 1899 signed by Walter Crane, Beauty's Awakening, 1899, A Masque of Days, 1901, Pan Pipes, 1883, three versions of The Baby's Banquet, two copies of The Baby's Opera, and a modern almanac, A Flower Wedding, Cassell & Company, Legends for Lionel, 1887, and An Artist's Reminiscences by Walter Crane, 1907, and a letter from Edith Craig to Walter Crane, dated 1903 discussing the commission of Masque of Queens.

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Catalogue notes

Edith Craig was born in 1869, the daughter of E W Godwin and Ellen Terry. She was interested in the Suffrage movement from childhood and joined the Women's Social & Political Union in 1908. The letter to Walter Crane belongs with the signed copy of The Triplets and may indicate that the copy of The Triplets once belonged to him on Edith Craig.