A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden" set forth in verse & coloured designs by Walter Crane Harper & Brothers, London - 1899 first UK edition - 46p, 20cmx15cm - condition: good, original floral decorated binding design, some rubbing to boards, aquarel illustrated endpapers, text pages loose, 46 full-color, full-page illustrations by Crane, complete. English artist and book illustrator Walter Crane is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children’s book creators of the early 19th century. Crane's work featured some of the more colorful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children's stories for decades to come.