Binding

Walter Crane

1870

Laminated paper on card

9½ x 6 inches

One of the series of Toy Books printed in colour by Edmund Evans on a citron field in the manner of his yellow-backs. Used for a number of others in the series, this fantastical design reminds us of Crane’s Pre-Raphaelite credentials.

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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke

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