Binding

Walter Crane

1901

Light blue cloth on card with decorative inked panels

6¾ x 4¾ inches

Crane's cover is a good example of his deployment of Arts and Crafts motifs, with a calculated balance between the chequer-board, the roundels, and the unembellished cloth.

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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke

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