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      Copyright

      Copyright © 2010 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      Text copyright © 2010 by Jeff A. Menges

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      Bibliographical Note

      The Art & Illustration of Walter Crane, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2010, is an original compilation of illustrations from the following sources: The Three Bears’ Picture Book, George Routledge and Sons, London, 1874; Walter Crane’s Toy Books, George Routledge and Sons, London, 1874; Goody Two Shoes’ Picture Book, George Routledge and Sons, London, 1874; The Baby’s Opera: A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses, George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., London and New York, 1877; The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories, Mary De Morgan, Macmillan & Co., London, 1880; Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm, The Brothers Grimm, Macmillan & Co., New York, 1882; Pan Pipes: A Book of Old Songs, Theo Marzials, George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., London, 1883; Bric-A-Brac Stories, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1885; The Golden Primer, Prof. J. M. D. Mieklejohn, Mieklejohn & Holden, 1885; Pothooks and Perseverance: or the ABC-serpent, Walter Crane, Marcus Ward & Co. Ltd., London, 1886; The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales, Oscar Wilde, Longman’s, Green, and Co., New York and London, 1888; The Book of Wedding Days, K. E. J. Reid, May Ross, and Mabel Bamfield, Longmans, Green, and Co., London and New York, 1889; Flora’s Feast: A Masque of Flowers, Walter Crane, Cassell & Company, Ltd., London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1889; Queen Summer: or, The Tourney of the Lily and The Rose, Walter Crane, Cassell & Company, Ltd., London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1891; A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., London, 1892; The Old Garden and Other Verses, Margaret Deland, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., London, 1893; The Tempest, William Shakespeare, J. M. Dent and Company, London, 1893; A Book of Christmas Verse, H. C. Beeching, Methuen and Company, London, 1895; The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser, George Allen, London, 1894–96; The History of Reynard the Fox, F. S. Ellis, David Nutt, London, 1897; The Shepheard’s Calendar, Edmund Spenser, Harper & Brothers, London & New York, 1898; Don Quixote of the Mancha, retold by Judge Parry, John Lane, New York, 1900; A Masque of Days, Elia, Cassell & Company, Ltd., London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, 1901; Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden, Walter Crane, Cassell & Co., Ltd., London, Paris, New York, & Melbourne, 1906; King Arthur’s Knights, Henry Gilbert, T. C. & E. C. Jack, London and Edinburgh, 1911; Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood, Henry Gilbert, T. C. & E. C. Jack, London and Edinburgh, 1912.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Crane, Walter, 1845–1915.

      The art & illustration of Walter Crane / Walter Crane; selected and edited by Jeff A. Menges.

      p. cm.

      “The Art & Illustration of Walter Crane, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2010,

      is an original compilation of illustrations from a variety of sources published between 1874 and 1912.”

      9780486135830

      1. Crane, Walter, 1845-1915–Themes, motives. I. Menges, Jeff A. II. Title.

      III. Title: Art and illustration of Walter Crane.

      NC978.5.C7A4 2010

      741.6092–dc22

      2010024286

      Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

      47586701

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      Dedicated to Lynne

      Who remembered

      having a Walter Crane

      book as a child,

      and lit up

      like a candle in the night

      when she went through it again.