Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 407

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) CRANE, WALTER. The House That Jack Built Alphabet. Illustrated with 6 color plates signed in the plate with the artist's monogram. 4to, original stiff wrappers employing the first of the internal plates; common off-printing, staples oxidized and spine worn with wrapper loose from contents and partly split along fold. London & New York: Ward, Lock, & Co., 1865
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early printing of this rare toy book with "pictures by walter crane" on front wrapper. One of three titles illustrated by Crane that were issued anonymously that Christmas by Ward, Lock and Tyler and just prior to Crane's work with Edmund Evans for Routledge's New Sixpenny Toy Book Series. This "pretty new Alphabet" was based on the old English nursery rhyme.