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Walter Crane (Penned & Pictured by). Floras Feast: A Masque of Flowers. Cassell and Co., 1889.
Price: US$98.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards somewhat dulled, chipping to edges and corners rounded. Book has clean and bright contents, gutters undamaged, pen front endpaper, 40pp uncut (as issued), 8 pages adverts rear.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Crane, Walter. FLORA'S FEAST, A Masque of Flowers. Cassell & Co.: London, 1889.
Price: US$109.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 10 x 7", cloth backed pictorial boards, 40pp, ink name, minor spotting, inner hinges cracked with front-hinge cello tape residue from earlier repair, covers heavily worn with rear outer hinge splitting. FIRST EDITION. WITH 40 (including title) FULL PAGE COLOR PLATES BY WALTER CRANE. Colors bright and sharp. SWAF.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Crane, Walter. Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers. Cassell & Co, London, 1889.
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Pages clean and bright. Binding shaken but pages still largely attached. Light spotting throughout. Large tear and some loss to pgs 15-16. Spotting to hard edges and end papers. Previous owner inscription to front end paper. Slight lean. Moderate- heavy shelf wear to boards. Size: 4to
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
CRANE, Walter.. Flora's Feast:. , 1889.
Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Description: A Masque of Flowers. 40pp of coloured illustrations, Cassell & Co., London 4to 1889. Spine and edges of covers rubbed. Some pages carelessly opened but not affecting the illustrations or text, else VG
Seller: Anthony C. Hall, Bookseller ABA ILAB, Isleworth, MIDDX, United Kingdom
Crane, Walter. Flora's Feast : A Masque of Flowers. Cassell & Company 1889, London, 1889.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. 40, 8 pp. Quarter blue cloth over pictorial boards. Rubbing and wear to boards, edges and spine. Binding a little shaken, but all sections intact. Small inscription to title and minor foxing throughout, though Crane's colour illustrations are bright. Publisher's catalogue at rear. Small 4to. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition (1889), unstated, but implied: no subsequent printings noted, according to Cassell & Company's customary practice at the time of publication. Good+ to Very Good-: Shows moderate use: shows moderate wear to the extremities and at the corner tips the underlying board has become exposed; mild rubbing to both panels and backstrip; faint overall soiling and smudging to the illustrated panels; the book was produced with the illustrated pages connected at the outside edges, leaving unillustrated pages between them; a previous owner has attempted to open the connection between pages three and four, resulting in jagged edges to the outer margins; the pages to pages 18 and 19 have been more carefully cut at the outside edge, while the rest of the pages have been left uncut (the former owner must have realized but this time that cutting the pages merely left blank - and unnumbered - pages between the illustrated ones); the binding remains square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, lightly used copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing some wear and unobtrusive cosmetic flaws. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 4to. (10.15 x 7.6 x 0.4 inches). 40pp. + [8]pp. of ads. at rear. Beautiful colour lithographs to every page. Pictorial paper covered boards, with powder blue linen backstrip. Language: English. Weight: 16 ounces. Decorated endpapers. Hardback: Pastedown tritone Illustrated panels with powder blue cloth backstrip. Walter Crane (1845 -1915) is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children s book creators of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the latter 19th century. Crane's work featured some of the more colourful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children's stories for decades to come. He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement and produced an array of paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts. First Edition (1889), unstated, but implied: no subsequent printings noted, according to Cassell & Company's customary practice at the time of publication.
Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
Crane, Walter.. Flora's Feast. A masque of flowers.. London Cassell, 1889.
Price: US$216.01 + shipping
Description: 40 S., 40 ganzs. farb. Illustr. von Walter Crane. Halbleinen, Deckelillustr., obere Ecke d. unt. Deckels angestaucht, sonst guter Zust., Sprache: Deutschu
Seller: Neusser Buch & Kunst Antiquariat, Neuss, NRW, Germany
Price: US$218.21 + shipping
Description: 40 (8) Seiten. Durchgehend illustriert. Gr.-8°, OHlwd. Einband (und Kapitale) an den Ecken und Kanten berieben und bestoßen, Einbandrückseite fleckig. Namensvermerk auf dem Vorsatz. Sprache: Englisch.
Seller: Antiquariat Dirk Borutta, Berlin, Germany
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. 7.5 x 10 inches. [ii] + 40 + 8 pp. publisher's catalogue. In cloth backed pictorial boards. A little wear to extremities, darkening of board edge and traces of foxing on preliminaries; otherwise a very good clean copy with all pages uncut. Illustrated throughout by chromolithograph plates, including title. Patterned endpapers. A book of juvenile verse written and beautifully drawn by Walter Crane (1845-1915), the famous artist and book illustrator. Each page contains a short verse about a flower which is illustrated with its human personification. ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS CHILDREN'S CHILDREN'S BOTANY ILLUSTRATED 19TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Description: [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.40 [10]. With fine colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's catalogue dated August 1889. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with green cloth to spine and endpapers patterned in orange. Light repair to split upper hinge. Doubled leaves unopened, as intended, with a strong tobacco scent. Quite heavy wear and toning to binding, with a repair to split upper hinge, bumping to corners, and fraying to head and tail of spine. Very good. A prelude to the 'Flower Fairies' concept, taken to its logical conclusion by Cicely Mary Barker in the 1920's.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Walter Crane. Flora's Feast, A Masque of Flowers. Cassell & Company, 1889.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Flora's Feast, A Masque of Flowers was penned & pictures by Walter Crane and published by Cassell & Company, Limited, perhaps as early as 1889, and appears to be a First Edition, though it's not stated as such. Though it's an ex-library copy, it's a beautiful book, in very good + condition but for some library markings. The book spent its years at the library in the Memorial Room, where people looked . . . and did not check out, hence there's little wear. The book has red cloth boards and is 7 3/8" by 10" with 40 pages almost all of which are "single-sided but connected". (I can email you a photograph if you're unsure of what I mean.) I've read that the pages are "japanned leaves." It's quite simply a beautifully done book of verses and illustrations. Thank you!
Seller: Ebeth & Abayjay Books, Lima, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$270.01 + shipping
Description: Good copy with decorated endpapers in quarter blue cloth and illustrated paper over boards. Some suggestion of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges with corners slightly bumped and frayed. Remains particularly well-preserved overall with some wear to extremeties. Copy has unread and unopened pages. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request. Physical description: 40, [8] p.: ill. (col. lithographs); 26 cm. Subject: Flowers -- Juvenile poetry. Children's poetry. Summary: As winter begins to fade, Queen Flora goes to her garden and awakens the flowers. Notes: "Cassell & Company, Limited, Lith. London."--P. 1, 40, and back cover. Printed on double leaves with fold at fore edge. Illustrated t.p. All pages illustrated. Has "The End" in Crane's lettering on p. 40 and also 8 pages of advertisements at end. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$304.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy with decorated endpapers in quarter blue cloth and illustrated paper over boards. Some suggestion of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges with corners slightly bumped and frayed. Remains particularly well-preserved overall with some wear to extremeties. Copy has unread and unopened pages. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request. Physical description: 40, [8] p.: ill. (col. lithographs); 26 cm. Subject: Flowers -- Juvenile poetry. Children's poetry. Summary: As winter begins to fade, Queen Flora goes to her garden and awakens the flowers. Notes: "Cassell & Company, Limited, Lith. London."--P. 1, 40, and back cover. Printed on double leaves with fold at fore edge. Illustrated t.p. All pages illustrated. Has "The End" in Crane's lettering on p. 40 and also 8 pages of advertisements at end. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Crane, Walter. FLORA'S FEAST A MASQUE OF FLOWERS. Cassell and Company, 1889.
Price: US$648.92 + shipping
Description: FLORA'S FEAST A MASQUE OF FLOWERS, Cassell and Company, 1889, first edition, light soiling to the rear cover, light wear to lower fore edge corner tips, light scattered foxing to the page edges, else a bright vg+ copy. Illustrated by Walter Crane with 40 full color, full page plates. A magnificent display of art nouveau. Previously marvelous Victorian artist Pickford Waller's copy with his signature in water color on the verso of the front end-paper.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.