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Crane, Walter (Illustrator). Eight Illustrations To Shakespeare's Tempest; Engraved & Printed By Duncan C. Dallas Dallastype Press No5. J.M. Dent & Co: Aldine House, London, 1893.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Description: Folio, 36 x 28 cm. Limited edition, copy 294 of 600 signed by Duncan C. Dallas and Walter Crane. All plates with lettered tissue guards: black and white plates mounted and matted on board stock. Title page printed in red. Book label of Harvey Frost interior of solander box. Repair to interior joint of solander box. Interior contents and plates clean and fresh. Loose as issued in publisher gilt stamped red and green cloth solander box. Very good

Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

Walter Crane. Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare's Tempest. J M Dent, London, 1893.

Price: US$1170.15 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A beautiful limited edition suite of eight plates produced by Walter Crane depicting Shakespeare's 'Tempest'. This suite is one of 650 copies designed by Crane and engraved in Dallastype facsimile by Duncan C Dallas. This suite is numbered 348. Dallastype is a process coined by Duncan C Dallas, and it was a method he established over forty years.Signed by Duncan C Dallas and Walter Crane to the limitation page.Collated, complete with all eight plates retaining their original tissue guards. Held in the original clamshell portfolio boxWalter Crane is considered to be one of the the most prolific and influential artists of his generation. Remembered for his contributions to children's literature alongside the likes of Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway. A core part of the Arts and Crafts movement, he worked across several media.A beautiful example of Walter Crane's talents as an artist. In the publisher's original box. With the plates loosely inserted as called for. Externally, smart, with splits to the cloth at the front joint. Bumping to the extremities and rubbing to the rear board. The plates are bright. Occasional light spots to plates. The 'Act 5 Scene 1' plate is particularly spotted. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Crane, Walter. Eight illustrations to Shakespeare's Tempest: designed by Walter Crane. Engraved & printed by Duncan C. Dallas, Dallastype Press. J.M. Dent & Co, London, 1893.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: First edition limited to 650 copies of which this is no. 212, folio, 2 leaves, 8 mounted engraved plates in window mounts, descriptive guardsheets; loose as issued in originaly half green gilt-lettered clamshell box; box edges show dampstaining, spine starting to separate; interior fine. Limitation page signed by Crane and Dallas, the latter certifying that "since printing the above number the Plates have been destroyed"

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.