Legends for Lionel: in pen and pencil

BY
WALTER CRANE
CASSELL & COMP Y LIMITED LONDON; PARIS; NEW YORK & MELBOURNE 1887
ALL Lions have tails: some—like the one here—remarkably long ones. Some Lionels I know have “Legends” instead. The Lionel for which these were made is a great devourer of them, and he also has an appetite for pictures to paint. This book of sketches, the offspring of the odd half hours of winter evenings, was originally intended strictly for home consumption. One thing, however, leads to another, just as the sketches did, following one by one as fancy led, till they filled the book, and this book falling under the eye of Messrs Cassell (through the voluntary offices of a sympathetic and enthusiastic friend) “Legends for Lionel” may become legends for legions of Lionels.
That both Lionels and others may get as much fun out of the book as did its own father—and Lionel’s—is the wish of both, at any rate
Walter Crane.
Aug: 1887
Jack Frost sends his Herald
without their leaves,
and just as the World is thinking of skating—
comes Thaw;
followed by Fog, in which Lionel begins to look out for Xmas.