Walter Crane
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Description
An English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children’s book creator of his generation (Wikipedia).
Books
Beauty and the beast
Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.
Ali Baba and the forty thieves
The bases of design
A survey of design culminating up to Crane's own aesthetic principles, with hundreds of illustrations. A standard work focusing on the development of aesthetic design, dedicated to Charles Rowley, head of the Manchester Municipal School of Art.
The Walter Crane series of embroidery cards
36 of the original 38 printed items, 13 x 18 cm, printed in two series (A and B) with original wrappers and explanations; intended to teach children new sounds through stories using the sounds and then through cards showing letters and illustrations prepared with guides to prick holes and embroider.
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes
1 volume (unpaged) : 18 x 21 cm +
The fairy ship
Pictures and poetry about a ship where the captain was a duck and all the sailors were mice.