£100
BEAUTY'S AWAKENING: A Masque of Winter and of Spring. Beauty's Awakening: A Masque of Winter and of Spring, first edition, one of 250 copies 'de luxe', frontispiece etching by William Strang, 50 further illustrations including four colour plates by T.R. Way, Joseph Pennell, C.J. Watson, Henry Wilkinson, C.R. Ashbee, W.R. Lethaby, Selwyn Image, Walter Crane, Henry Holiday, G. Moira, C. Whall, Wm. Strang, Raven Hill, C.O. Murray, Paul Woodroffe, etc., bookplate front paste down, Ochre buckram by Garner Russell & Co., London: The Studio, 1899.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER. Loosely inserted is a signed letter by Walter Crane to Henry Holiday on designed note paper, "My dear Holiday, Mr Ben Grant wants to present our masque with his own company at the botanic gardens, in the open air, sometime next June, & wants to know what costumes etc. are available. He will give us a percentage on the performance which I hope will enable us to pay something back to our Quaestors?. May I trouble toy to tell me if your costumes for Thebes & Rameses, & for Clio are available? also Dante & any others you designed? Would you be willing to lend them on condition of Grant undertaking to return them to you? Very truly tours Walter Crane" dated April 2, 1902, 13 Holland St, Kensington W, 1pp., folded. Beauty's Awakening: A Masque of Winter and of Spring, first edition, one of 250 copies 'de luxe', frontispiece etching by William Strang, 50 further illustrations including four colour plates by T.R. Way, Joseph Pennell, C.J. Watson, Henry Wilkinson, C.R. Ashbee, W.R. Lethaby, Selwyn Image, Walter Crane, Henry Holiday, G. Moira, C. Whall, Wm. Strang, Raven Hill, C.O. Murray, Paul Woodroffe, etc., bookplate front paste down, Ochre buckram by Garner Russell & Co., London: The Studio, 1899.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER. Loosely inserted is a signed letter by Walter Crane to Henry Holiday on designed note paper, "My dear Holiday, Mr Ben Grant wants to present our masque with his own company at the botanic gardens, in the open air, sometime next June, & wants to know what costumes etc. are available. He will give us a percentage on the performance which I hope will enable us to pay something back to our Quaestors?. May I trouble toy to tell me if your costumes for Thebes & Rameses, & for Clio are available? also Dante & any others you designed? Would you be willing to lend them on condition of Grant undertaking to return them to you? Very truly tours Walter Crane" dated April 2, 1902, 13 Holland St, Kensington W, 1pp., folded.
Endpapers browned, extremities to binding lightly worn, minor staining.
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