SWEET WILLIAM with MARYGOLD Seek HEARTSEASE in the close box-border. Where, starched in their ruff’s stiff fold, DUTCH DAHLIAS prim, keep order. NARCISSUS bends over the brook, Intent upon DAFFA-DOWN-DILLY: KNIGHT’S SPUR to the LADIES BOWER To seek for the LADIES SLIPPER .
Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden – Walter Crane
“O,PROSERPINA, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou lett’st fall From Dis’s wagon! 3. daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; 4. violets, dim But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes 5 Or Cytherea’s breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phœbus in his strength, a malady Most…
The Baby’s Own Aesop Illustrated by Walter Crane
. .. CONTENTS Page 9. The Fox and the Grapes. 10. The Cock and the Pearl.—The Wolf and the Lamb. 11. The Wind and the Sun. 12. King Log and King Stork. 13. The Frightened Lion. 14. The Mouse and the Lion.—The Married Mouse. 15. Hercules and the Waggoner. 16. The Lazy Housemaids. 17. The Snake and the File.—The Fox and the Crow. 18. The…
The Forest: History & Lore – Illustrated by Walter Crane
THE NEW FOREST: ITS History and its Scenery. BY John R Wise Illustrated by Walter Crane .. .. . .. . . .. . .. . … CHAPTER XVI. THE FOLK-LORE AND PROVINCIALISMS. Anderwood Corner. Intimately bound up with the race are of course the folk-lore of a district, and what we are now pleased…
Mother Goose from the Golden Age of Illustrators
MOTHER GOOSE’S Nursery Rhymes A collection of Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales, and JinglesWith Illustrations BY Sir JOHN GILBERT, R.A., JOHN TENNIEL, HARRISON WEIR, WALTER CRANE, W. McCONNELL, J. B. ZWECKER Old Mother Goose, when She wanted to wander, Would ride through the air On a very fine gander.Mother Goose had a house, ‘Twas built in a wood, Where…
Walter Crane Golden Age of Illustrators
The Frog Prince by Walter Crane Princess Belle-Etoile A MASQUE OF DAYS FROM THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA: NEWLY DRESSED & DECORATED BY WALTER CRANE PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE. 1901. THE OLD YEAR being dead, and the NEW YEAR coming of age, wh: he does by Calendar Law, as soon as the…
Edward Lear – The Owl and the Pussy Cat – Golden Age of Illustrators
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of moneyWrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the stars above, And sang to a small guitar, “O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,What a beautiful Pussy you are, You are,You are!What a…
The Golden Age of Children’s Book Illustration
The Victorians George Cruikshank Richard Doyle John Tenniel The Dalziel Brothers Arthur Hughes Edward Lear Eleanor Vere Boyle Walter Crane Kate Greenaway Randolph Caldecott Gordon Brown Howard Pyle and his disciples Howard Pyle Hessie Willcox Smith Ethel Franklin Betts The Golden Years Henry J. Ford J. D. Batten Louis Rhead Helen Stratton…
The Overall Boys
IILLUSTRATED BY BERTHA CORBETT MELCHER The “Mother of the Sunbonnet Babies and the Overall Boys” Copyright, 1916, by Eulalie Osgood Grover All rights reserved Entered at Stationers’ Hall [6] A map showing the places the Overall Boys visited in Switzerland [9] THE OVERALL BOYS IN SWITZERLAND THREE CHEERS FOR EUROPE It was the first…
The Sunbonnet Babies
Copyright, 1922, by Eulalie Osgood Grover All rights reserved in all countries History Bertha L. Corbett Melcher ‘Sunbonnet Babies were created by Bertha Corbett Melcher (1872–1950).[4] Melcher was born in Denver and moved with her family to Minneapolis in the 1880s. Melcher attended art school in Minneapolis with plans to become a commercial artist.[5] She may have…