'The Shepheard's Calendar - March', 1898, (1923). Artist: Walter Crane.

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'The Shepheard's Calendar - March', 1898, (1923).. Crane's cover design for Spenser's Shepheard's Calender is bold in its blatantly illustrative style. The Shepheardes Calender was Edmund Spenser's first major poetic work, published in 1579. From British Book Illustration - Yesterday and To-day edited by Geoffrey Holme. [The Studio, Ltd., London, 1923]

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