Walter Crane
(1845 - 1915)
Walter Crane was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most prolific and influential children’s book creator of his generation.
Along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, his is considered one of the strongest contributors to the child’s nursery motif that the genre of English children’s illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the latter 19th century.
His work featured some of the more colourful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children’s stories for decades to come.
He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement and produced an array of paintings, illustrations, children’s books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts.
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The Baby's Bouquet (1878)
Bibliography
Columbia’s Courtship (1892)
"A picture history of the United States in twelve emblematic designs in color with accompanying verses." This is a World's Columbian Exposition souvenir book.
The Cuckoo Clock (1877)
An orphan girl finds a friend in the cuckoo clock who takes her on magical journeys. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Don Quixote of La Mancha (1900)
The romance-befuddled Hidalgo mounts his Rozinante and sets out to battle villains and right wrongs. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Echoes of Hellas (1887)
A dramatization with songs of certain scenes from the Iliad, Oddysey and the Oresteia. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Et al
Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare’s Tempest (1893)
Eight illustrations to The Tempest. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Fable Nook and Story Book (1901)
A collection of stories and poems.
Et al
A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden (1898)
Humanized flowers. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Flora’s Feast: A Masque of Flowers (1889)
Humanized flowers. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
A Flower Wedding Described by Two Wallflowers (1905)
An illustrated poem. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden: A Posy from the Plays (1906)
Humanized flowers to illustrate Shakespearean lines. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
A Gaping-Wide-Mouth Waddling Frog (1866)
A nonsense poem.
Here is the game based on it at archive.org.
Another copy at FSU.
The History of Reynard the Fox (1894)
An English verse version of a popular epic satire, first translated by William Caxton. This is the first edition. Here is the second edition. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
F. S. Ellis
The History of Reynard the Fox (1897)
This is a metrical version of Caxton’s old English translation of the traditional romance of Reynard the Fox. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
F. S. Ellis
Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm (1882)
Fifty-two tales from the German masters. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm (1963)
A facsimile of the original 1882 publication.
An Inland Voyage (1878)
Robert Louis Stevenson and his friend Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson embark on a trip through Belgium and France by canoe which is chronicled in this book. Read online at archive.org.
Jack and the Beanstalk (1875)
Trading his mother’s cow for a handful of magic beans works out in the end. Read for free online at the Toronto Public Library. NOTE: this link downloads a very large file.
Legends for Lionel (1887)
A Christmas fantasy. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Little Queen Anne and Her Majesty’s Letters (1886)
An educational fantasy. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Little Red Riding Hood (1875)
The classic tale of a girl, a grandmother and a wolf. Read for free online at the University of Florida.