Walter Crane's Painting Book Containing twelve coloured and twelve outline full-page plates

"Walter Crane's Painting Book" by Walter Crane is an artistic publication created in the late 19th century. This book features a collection of illustrations designed for children, focusing on imaginative themes and popular nursery rhymes. It serves as a colorful introduction to the world of art for young readers, blending visual engagement with storytelling. The content of the book includes twelve full-page colored illustrations, each paired with outlines for children to fill in with their own creativity. The illustrations depict scenes from well-known nursery rhymes and tales, encouraging children to explore artistic expression while connecting with familiar stories. The vibrant images, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, serve not only as a source of entertainment but also as inspiration for budding artists to use their imagination and artistic skills. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Walter Crane was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the later 19th century.