"Grandmother Dear" A Book for Boys and Girls; Illustrated by Walter Crane

Mrs. Molesworth. "Grandmother Dear" A Book for Boys and Girls; Illustrated by Walter Crane. London: MacMillan and Co., 1886. New Edition. [10841] Green publisher's cloth, decorated in black and gilt, gilt bright on the front cover, dull on the spine, 7 x 5 inches, tight. Frontispiece with detached tissue guard, light offsetting to the title page from the t.g., six (of seven) additional b/w plates. 262 clean pages; the last plate called for is not present. Good. Hardcover. A story of teenage girls, their grandmother, and Christmas. First published in 1878, early editions such as this one is are uncommon on the market. The illustrator, Walter Crane (1845-1915), an English artist associated the the Arts & Crafts movement, "considered to be the most influential, among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation, and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illu