Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New.
CRANE (Walter). & WHITE [Ed.] (Gleeson)

Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New.

THE SCARCE JAPANESE VELLUM ISSUE

Illustrated in black and white throughout after Blake, Calvert, Ricketts, Crane, Gere et. al. One of 130 copies printed on Japanese vellum. 8vo., 16 x 23.5cm, [2], xii, 335, [1]pp. Original publishers buff paper wrappers, lettered on spine and upper cover in black. London, Printed at the Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons, 1896.

£500.00

Very good, spine faded and upper cover creased parallel to joint, but internally fine.

The scarce Japanese vellum issue of this fine study of book design and illustration by Walter Crane, based on the three Cantor lectures given before the Society of Arts in 1889. Crane emphasises that his intention is, in modern terms, to highlight the integration of word and image, rather than pure illustration; ‘I have endeavoured to draw the line between the purely graphic aim, on the one hand, and the ornamental aim on the other - between what I should term the art of pictorial statement and the art of decorative treatment… to treat of illustrations which are also book-ornaments’ (from the preface). In doing so, Crane takes the reader on a journey from medieval manuscripts, via Holbein and Dürer, to Blake, Calvert, Beardsley and Ricketts.

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Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New.
Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New.
Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New.
Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New.
Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New.
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