[Color, Design, Decoration- Walter Crane, etc.] Extremely Scarce with Superb Fold-Out Mural by Walter Crane] The Apartments of the House

Crouch, Joseph and Edmund Butler

Published by At the Sign of the Unicorn, London, 1900

About this Item

First Edition. Small 4to. 197pp. Original publishers tan fine wove cloth with color stamped decorated cover in gold, light blue red and black, gilt lettering to spine, color-stamped publisher's monogram on back. Photogravure frontispiece, 6 plates, and numerous full page and text illustrations. Croch and Butler, in partnership from 1885-1902, present their collective ideas into a practical guide on fitting out a moderate-sized middle-class house, at the Turn of the Century. This scarce work has 140 separate illustrations, and most notably, a fold-out mural by WALTER CRANE (on heavy green art paper, opening into three segments), designed to be stenciled on a dining room wall! We found no copies on the internet at the time of writing. Near fine. Seller Inventory # 6594

Bibliographic Details

Title: [Color, Design, Decoration- Walter Crane, ...

Publisher: At the Sign of the Unicorn, London

Publication Date: 1900

Edition: First Edition.