A MASQUE OF DAYS
From the Last Essays of Elia: Newly Dressed & Decorated by Walter Crane
- Cloth backed pictorial boards
- London (Paris, New York, & Melbourne): Cassell & Company, 1901
ONE OF WALTER CRANE'S BEST WORKS - ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL RICH COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS. The Text by ELIA (Charles Lamb) has been Written by Crane in his Calligraphic Style and Placed Within a Box Alongside Each Illustration.
The New Year Gives a Party for All the Special Days of the New Year to Come. Each of the 40 chosen days are personified -It's a Display of Women & Men Wearing Styles of Dress from Many Earlier Eras. Walter Crane's Illustrations are Elaborate and Colorful.
Printed on good paper stock in the French fold manner, 40 pgs plus color double-spread title page and a half- title page in red. Decorated endpapers. The book's edges & corners are rubbed, wear at spine's tips and edge, front inner hinge has some breaks to the paper (halfway down hinge to bottom - but it is tight, and at the very bottom of the back's fep is a neatly repaired 1/4" closed tear. Internally this copy is VG+ (clean, bright, tight with no marks.
The New Year Gives a Party for All the Special Days of the New Year to Come. Each of the 40 chosen days are personified -It's a Display of Women & Men Wearing Styles of Dress from Many Earlier Eras. Walter Crane's Illustrations are Elaborate and Colorful.
Printed on good paper stock in the French fold manner, 40 pgs plus color double-spread title page and a half- title page in red. Decorated endpapers. The book's edges & corners are rubbed, wear at spine's tips and edge, front inner hinge has some breaks to the paper (halfway down hinge to bottom - but it is tight, and at the very bottom of the back's fep is a neatly repaired 1/4" closed tear. Internally this copy is VG+ (clean, bright, tight with no marks.
Details
Title
A MASQUE OF DAYS
Author
CRANE, WALTER / ELIA
Binding
Cloth backed pictorial boards
Condition
Very Good
Publisher
Cassell & Company: London (Paris, New York, & Melbourne)
Date
1901
Edition
1st EDIITION
Size
4to
Pages
40 pgs