WALTER CRANE
English author and illustrator (1845)
Biography:
Walter Crane was born in Liverpool the 15th August 1845. The painter William Linton taught him in London, but he himself studied the books on Dürer's engravings. From 1867 on, he collaborated with Dalziel Brothers and illustrated children's books for Routledge and Edmund Evans Editors. He traveled in Europe and United States. He joint the socialist party and William Morris' movement Arts and Crafts. From 1893 to 1896 he taught in Manchester and in 1898 he became manager of Reading College and Royal College of Art. A part from his works as illustrator, he undertook a literary career. He set the realtionship between the text and the white page that frames it, by analysing his own style.
Walter Crane, author of illustrated works:
Robin Hood, éd. Jack, 1912.
Press:
Once a Week Argosy Punch
Works illustrated by Walter Crane:
Miguel Cervantes, Don Quixote, Dodd, 1880.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household Stories (Snow-white and Hansel and Gretel), Macmillan, 1882.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Transformation: Or, the romance of Monte Beni, Smith, Elder and Co., 1865.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. A wonder book for girls and boys, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1892.
Lemon, Jack. Wait for the end, Bradbury, Evans and Co., 1866.
Perrault, Little red riding hood. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1875.
Shakespeare, The merry wives of Windsor. London: George Allen, 1894.
Shakespeare, The tempest. London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1893.
Shakespeare, Two gentlemen of Verona. London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1894.
Sing a song of sixpence. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1866.
The sleeping beauty in the wood. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1875.
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. London: George Allen, 1894.
Robert Louis Stevenson, An inland voyage. London: C. Kegan Paul, 1878.
Stevenson, Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes, London: C. Kegan Paul, 1879.
Walter Crane on the internet:
Walter Crane - Bob Speel's website (in English)