MAGNIFICENT ART-WORK BY WALTER CRANE. CRANE (Walter) "The FIRST of MAY," a Fairy Masque, illustrated by 57 designs, printed by the photo-gravure process, in exact facsimile of the original drawings by WALTER CRANE; INDIA PROOFs, imperial folio size, in portfolio, £6. 6s 1881 The same, FIRST PROOFS on INDIA PAPER, atlas folio size, in portfolio, £10.108 ***Copies in various sumptuous bindings, forming handsome presents, kept in stock. By this process the engravings are hardly to be detected from the drawings themselves. No description would realize the variety of subjects, and the wide range of Mr. CRANE'S pencil, nor the felicity with which each of the characters, human and semi-human, is drawn and individualized. Men, women, boys, girls, fairies, demons, elves, imps, beasts, birds, and even insects, all figure before us-singing, dancing, flying, joyous or sad, in eacli scene of the masque. All is May and Fairyland. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "The First of May' is in its own way a masterpiece. Mr. Crane has brought all his graceful and pleasant fancies to bear on his Fairy Masque. It has all the well-known marks of his genius, and is full of quaintness, grace, and whimsical fancy. It is rich in sunny landscapes, purling brooks, and shady groves. The artist's pencil seems to inspire everything with life, from the lovely Angelica, the Fairy Queen, her dainty elves, and gossamer-winged wood-nymphs, to the birds and beasts which are scattered so profusely over the pages. The softness of tone and the variety of light and shadow have been excellently preserved by the Goupil process, and the engravings have almost the appearance of the original."-Pall Mall Gazette. "The First of May' is a grand art-work, and bids fair to be the book not only of this but many another season. It is unique in character, unsurpassed and unsurpassable in beauty, and one of the most exquisite and choice that an artist-mind could conceive, or enlightened and liberal-minded publishers carry out. It will be a treasure- a thing of beauty' that will be a joy for ever'-to those who are fortunate enough to secure copies. These should be at once applied for."-The Reliquary, "The First of May' is a work full of tender feeling, and perfect in composition. The artist's smaller figures, his children, are delightful. What could be prettier than the little group around the maypole, No. III., or the busy elves making the spring's green wave break o'er the fields"? And how successful, too, he is in his delineation of the half-animal, half-human creature, which, though somewhat sparingly, he has introduced; two groups on Sheet XXXVIII. are not unworthy of Wilhelm von Kaulbach or of Grandville."-Academy. CRAVEN (Madame A.) SES (EUVRES: Le 1821 CREASY (Sir E.) 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In his Fifth Book the WORKS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. CRUIKSHANK AND ROWLANDSON.-COOMBE'S (W.) TOURS of DR. SYNTAX in Search of the Picturesque, of Consolation, and of a Wife, with numerous coloured plates by T. Rowlandson, 3 vols. 1813-20-21; LIFE of NAPOLEON, a Hudibrastic Poem by Dr. Syntax, with 30 coloured engravings by George Cruikshank, 1817; TOUR of DR. SYNTAX, through London, or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis, with 19 COLOURED plates, 1820-Together 5 vols. royal 8vo. calf gilt (not uniform), £24. 10s CRUIKSHANK: 27 most spirited coloured engravings by J. R. and G. Cruikshank, from Life in London, royal 8vo. cloth, £1. 8s 1820-21 POINTS OF MISERY, or Fables for Mankind, chiefly original, by C. Westmacott, with 20 very humourous engravings on wood by R. Cruikshank, royal 8vo. in the original paper wrapper, ENTIRELY UNCUT, bound in a half morocco cover, top edges 1823 gilt, VERY SCARCE in this state, £2. 5s "From the Author," a very fine copy. TALES OF IRISH LIFE; illustrative of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the People, with 6 admirable woodcuts after designs by George Cruikshank, and a duplicate set on India paper, 2 vols. foolscap Svo. half morocco extra, gilt edges (fine copy, from Mr. Beckford's collection) : very scarce, £7. 10s 1824 GREENWICH HOSPITAL; a Series of Naval Sketches descriptive of the Life of a Man-ofWar's Man; by an Old Sailor (M. H. BARKER), with 12 full-page illustrations by G. CRUIKSHANK, besides vignettes, 4to. cloth, £4. 4s 1826 Another copy, the 12 LARGE and SPIRITED PLATES, finely coloured, and 14 wood engravings INSERTED AT END, all mounted on drawing paper, imperial 4to. half morocco neat (a fine clean copy, with Mr. Comerford's book-plate), VERY SCARCE, £3. 15s 1825 "This is one of the first 40 impressions, coloured under the superintendence of Cruikshank himself." These Sketches are among Cruikshank's most spirited and humourous productions. MORNINGS at Bow STREET; a Selection of the most humourous and entertaining Reports which have appeared in the Morning Herald: by J. WIGHT: The Two SERIES, with 45 illustra tions by G. Cruikshank, 2 vols, foolscap 8vo. half 1825-7 calf (binding cracked), £2. 5s MORNINGS at Bow STREET; First Series: FIRST EDITION, with 21 illustrations by G. Cruik shank, post Svo. new half morocco, top edges gilt, £1. 28 6d 1824 Another copy, First Series, foolscap 8vo. calf, £1. 10s 1825 UNIVERSAL SONGSTER, or Museum of Mirth; the most complete Collection of Ancient and Modern BRITISH SONGS in the Language, illustrated by many humourous woodcuts by G. and R. 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