CRANE, Walter.

Renascence. A Book Of Verse.

Illustrations by Walter Crane. First edition, No. 17 of 65 large paper copies. 4to. Original quarter vellum over blue paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. London: Elkin Mathews at the sign of the Bodley Head, 1891.

£215.00
CRANE, Walter.
Renascence. A Book Of Verse.

Printed at the Chiswick Press for the Bodley Head.

“Prefaced by a title-page which expresses [Crane’s] concept of symbolic illustration – here a nude female figure intertwined with her hair, and a flight of doves rising with the dawn of a new day. As a backdrop, the curves of the artist’s palette are played off against a rectangular mass of white upon which the lettering in black is imposed.” Nelson, The Early Nineties. p. 66.

Some wear to corners and spine, small stain to front cover. Offsetting to front free endpaper.

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