Reid Ross Mabel Bamfield (3 results)

With Decorations for Each Page by Walter Crane. Folio, publisher's red beveled cloth decorated in silver. A few light smudges to preliminary leaves and light foxing to endsheets; shaken, with a few small losses to the cloth.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Walter Crane (illustrator). First edition. Delightfully illustrated throughout by Walter Crane, this is a delightful volume intended to record the dates of weddings. Compiled by K. E. J Reid, May Ross and Mabel Bamfield, this is a charming calendar, decorated by Walter Crane, in which quotations accompany blank spaces for each day of the year, intended to be filled in by the owner of the volume with the dates of weddings and anniversaries.Each page is beautifully decorated in red ink and each day has a specific quotation which correlates to the day of the year. The quotations come from the writings of Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson to name a few.To the front free endpaper is mounted the Times newspaper's obituary of Crane, published eleven days after his death, and discussing his funeral, which took place in Golder's Green. The obituary notes that 'when by-and-by the history of English art during the past 40 years comes to be written, in that critical record his name will stand out prominently'.Crane was an English artist and book illustrator considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation.The prior owner of this work has supplied names and years of marriages in ink on twenty-six pages. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail, and corners of front board. Light discolouration to board perimeters. Hinges strained, and crudely repaired with tape. Newspaper clipping tipped in to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned, but generally clean. Contemporary inscriptions to twenty-six pages. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Walter Crane (illustrator). A delicately and thoughtfully illustrated collation of quotations and poems for each day of the year. A beautifully illustrated and decorated calendar of quotations for every day of the year.Each page is beautifully decorated in red ink and each day has a specific quotation which can correlate to the day of the year of a wedding or anniversary. The quotations come from the writings of Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson to name a few. The book is in recollection of the Prince and Princess of Wales's Silver Wedding day in March 1888.Frontispiece and 88 illustrated pages.The November 1-8 bound in reverse. In the publisher's original cloth and silver binding. Externally, fading and discolouration to the spine, with some fading to the extremities on the rear and front boards. There are also some markings to the boards and slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. The front hinge is starting. Internally, generally firmly bound. There is some discolouration to the front free-end piece but the pages are bright and clean throughout. Very Good. book.