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Walter Crane
(1845-1915) was an influential Arts and Crafts designer and illustrator,
a socialist and friend of William Morris. He had no formal artistic
training, but served an apprenticeship with the London engraver,
W. J. Linton, illustrating dress catalogues and drawing animals
at the zoo. The sixpenny toy books, produced by Edmund Evans for
Routledge, are amongst his best known work. Michel Chevreul, whose
book The Laws of Contrast of Colour first appeared in English
in 1861, pointed out that black had the effect of making adjacent
colours seem brighter. (Another of Crane's toy books is shown in
the section on book illustration.)
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