Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 408

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) CRANE, WALTER. Walter Crane's Toy Books. New Sixpenny Series. Each with eight color plates signed in the plate with the artist's monogram and engraved on wood by Edmund Evans. 4to, original stiff wrappers, wear varies, backstrips rubbed, occasional tears and soiling. Comprising 12 vols.: Sing A Song of Sixpence, The Multiplication Table in Verse, The Fairy Ship, Adventures of Puffy (with duplicate); This Little Pig Went To Market; The Noah's Arc Alphabet, The Forty Thieves, Valentine and Orson, Baby's Own Alphabet, The Three Bears, and Cinderella. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1866-1873
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early printings of the rare sixpenny toy books. Originally issued anonymously, these pamphlets proved to be so popular that the public demanded to know the artist. Routledge finally capitulated in 1873 and reissued them as Walter Crane's Toy Books with a new standard Japanesque cover of a crane and a flock of baby birds designed by Crane. When he demanded a royalty and Routledge refused, Crane ended his association with the series.