. Modern book-bindings & their designers. s, textiles, and wall-[lapers The buo)ant Elizabethan atmospherethat charged his TriiDiipli of Labour with suchconvincing dignity, vitality, and grace is hardl)less distmctive m his book-covers. Mith suchmaterial as Spensers S/icp/ieards Calender he isthoroughly at ease, and the breezy pastoral spiritof the original lends itself perfectly to the playof his own. A lighter but similarly congenialtask has been fulfilled in .7 Flora/ Fantasy : and,although the latter is hardlv more than a high-classnursery picture-book, it is, perhaps, in that aspect heart
. Modern book-bindings & their designers. s, textiles, and wall-[lapers The buo)ant Elizabethan atmospherethat charged his TriiDiipli of Labour with suchconvincing dignity, vitality, and grace is hardl)less distmctive m his book-covers. Mith suchmaterial as Spensers S/icp/ieards Calender he isthoroughly at ease, and the breezy pastoral spiritof the original lends itself perfectly to the playof his own. A lighter but similarly congenialtask has been fulfilled in .7 Flora/ Fantasy : and,although the latter is hardlv more than a high-classnursery picture-book, it is, perhaps, in that aspect heartedh in child-lore than \\alter Crane—whosecreations are more self-conscious, less convincinghartless and nane - he has giNen us, perhaps, themost winsome children to be found in modernblack-and-«hite. It has often been said with house which has long been associated with booksabout art and artists, and is therefore looked tofor some worthy lead in the decoration of theircovers. In considerinsi the excursions thus made into ^ -v n 1-1 m. ipieriett; iMBItmrjiCPOOKi Ktaa^*, ^ I /^
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