Creator
Walter Crane
Title
Walter Crane's New Toy Book, Containing Sixty-Four Pages of Pictures Designed by Walter Crane and Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans.
Coverage
London; New York
Publisher
George Routledge and Sons
Date
[1874?]
Description
Walter Crane (1845-1915) is one of the best-known illustrators of the nineteenth century, justly famous for his colorful series of Toy Books, rendered in chromoxylography by the innovative printer Edmund Evans. Crane’s illustrations for Three Little Pigs would merit a place in the Grolier Club’s teaching collection on color printing regardless, but in fact it is a souvenir of a much larger collection of several hundred children’s books, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, all having to do with pigs, donated to the Club in 2011 by Grolier member Frances (Connie) Dulaney. The gift was made with the understanding that, aside from a few representative examples of printing and illustration techniques, such as the Walter Crane title, the collection would be sold to support Grolier Club Library acquisitions.
Source
Gift of Frances (Connie) Dulaney, 2011.